Pynchon test

Patrick P. Lynch plynch at eis.calstate.edu
Mon Aug 22 14:27:53 CDT 1994


Good thinking, but--and I admit to laziness at this moment because its 
still summer and the time is right ...--but I believe that we are 
addressed directly elsewhere.  For example, one could twist the opening 
pages as a direct address to us, and I think we could just as easily be 
the addressees of the final few paragraphs.  But you're travelling
that po-mo trail and we like that.

(All the above 'wes' refer to we the readers as opposed to any other 
sophomoric we one might construe.  However, perhaps if someone were to
construe such a sophomoric we, say, a mouse in one's pocket, we might hav 
a lead on TRP himself and his existence on a node in the 'Net.  To return 
to your original query...)

All the best, Patrick

On Sat, 20 Aug 1994 DKGIBBONS at delphi.com wrote:

> <<this passage is from GR etc>  Very nice. You read the book.  But here in high school we expect more.
> This passage jump out bed because nowhere else in the book is anyone speaking 
> directly to us.  think about how the questions we ask limit the answers we can get.
> Think about how our brains (soup-pot) have have 
> 

patrick lynch				plynch at eis.calstate.edu
"The poets down here don't write nothing at all
 They just stand back and let it all be..."	Springsteen





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