<div dir="ltr">Didn't know amateur discussion was prohibited here. I'll go back to my lurker status.<div>About being silly, sometimes I forget that most people avoid being earnest if it's not masked in irony, sarcasm, etc.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-01-03 15:13 GMT-06:00 Keith Davis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kbob42@gmail.com" target="_blank">kbob42@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I considered that, but thought my answer could use some explication...or maybe I just don't when to shut up!<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 4:10 PM, David Morris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fqmorris@gmail.com" target="_blank">fqmorris@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Just in case you misunderstood, I was asking Bruno, not you, Keith.</div><div class="m_-9125015462779543015HOEnZb"><div class="m_-9125015462779543015h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Keith Davis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kbob42@gmail.com" target="_blank">kbob42@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Thank you!<br><br>Ok, here's another answer. Most, possibly all, of the people who come here, and have been here for a while, are here because we're big fans of Pynchon's work. That means we've all put a lot of time into reading and re-reading and discussing his work. Plenty of people here are ready at any time to jump into discussions of meaning and interpretation, e.g. all of the supportive response to Mike Jing's translation efforts. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Serious questions always, or usually, anyway, receive serious responses. On the other hand, questions that have to do with details that can, and only in my humble opinion, should, be discovered by a serious reading of the text, are likely to be met with silly answers, or, as would have been better in the present case, on my part, no answer.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="m_-9125015462779543015m_7715887247615950538h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 2:15 PM, David Morris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fqmorris@gmail.com" target="_blank">fqmorris@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Are you trying to sound silly? If so, good job!<div><span class="m_-9125015462779543015m_7715887247615950538m_-5933338324863739349HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">David Morris</font></span><div><div class="m_-9125015462779543015m_7715887247615950538m_-5933338324863739349h5"><br><br>On Tuesday, January 3, 2017, Bruno Nogueira <<a href="mailto:bruno.laze@gmail.com" target="_blank">bruno.laze@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">It is very pleasing to fill gaps in memory with imagination!<div>But you are right, Keith. I have lots of reading to do, as always. Don't we all? </div><div>Even so, someone said that GR should be read the way we listen to jazz. Maybe words (/the music sheet) aren't that important as the soul and abstract meaning (/the phenomenology of music). Our abstract concept of Katje may be more important than the referential details. How do you feel about her? I suspect that, regarding GR, if we don't listen to what we feel, the whole novel implodes (like jazz!): nothing narrated is trustworthy, is it? Like the old hippie said: "I don't have words. I have a soul."</div><div><br></div><div>Katje is a spy? She works for whom? Us or Them?...</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-01-03 11:21 GMT-06:00 David Morris <span dir="ltr"><<a>fqmorris@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Yeah,  I don't remember things the way Bruno tells them...<span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>David Morris</div></font></span></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Keith Davis <span dir="ltr"><<a>kbob42@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>You have some reading to do.<br><br><a href="http://Www.innergroovemusic.com" target="_blank">Www.innergroovemusic.com</a></div><div><br>On Jan 3, 2017, at 11:54 AM, Bruno Nogueira <<a>bruno.laze@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">Except that Katjer worked for the Germans, didn't she? My memory fails me---I remember one of her first episodes depicting a threesome with Blicero and Enzian, at the V2 shack, where they all lived like rats. She was then sent by Bliss to London, to spy on the White Visitation.<div>Btw, what is the relation between Pirate Prentice, Katje, and Slothrop?</div><div><br></div><div>Happy new year to you all!</div><div>Bruno</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-01-02 16:53 GMT-06:00 Bob Berg <span dir="ltr"><<a>robertberg5125@comcast.net</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><a href="https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/teenager-nazi-armed-resistance-netherlands-876?utm_source=dmfb" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.vice.com/en_uk/art<wbr>icle/teenager-nazi-armed-resis<wbr>tance-netherlands-876?utm_sour<wbr>ce=dmfb</a><br>
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