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"Pynchon may have had an unfinished book set in Tokyo about an insurance adjuster assessing the damage done Tokyo after Godzilla."

Of course, the funny thing to me about 70s-nostalgia is, having come of age in that time, what i remember is the feeling of belatedness: i was too young to have seen all the fun that was the 60s. via

"To educated people of Fowler’s day, who grew up studying Latin and Greek, these words sounded gimcrack and ugly."

"a shift in the center of gravity from the journal to the online blog"

asides of the machine · at dusk
   slip through my fingers
confirmed carnivore · pearl gray car on a rack
   as i wait at the light

"This is interesting. I've attempted to make my own translations of some of the shorter poems.

This one possibly refers to his wife being brunette & his mistress being blonde. I don't know if critics have discussed the point before."