Second derivative (3/21/95)

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In re your remarks on The Conformist: somehow the picture of Johnny Cocktail [“I’m a critic”] showing up [presumably in trenchcoat] at the premiere of an Italian left-wing movie with a bombshell of mixed provenance on his arm conjures up the milieu of Foucault’s Pendulum; making me wonder, naturally, whether Umberto Eco read your memoirs. After all, he seems to have read everything else.


Miss Wonderbra batted her eyelashes at me this morning and I agreed to drop by Farrand Hall at two a.m. Tuesday to help her out with Chapter Three. — I don’t believe myself. — Am I this shameless? — Is she that gorgeous? — After three centuries of misuse, can the calculus at last find application as a tool for picking up babes? — How would Wittgenstein have analyzed my motives in this situation? — And if I’ll do this when she bats her eyelashes, what would I do if she took a deep breath?

Stay tuned.

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Will work for food [albeit not qualified to eat] (3/7/95)