Chaos, Fractals & GR

[WildForest at aol.com]

Bonnie sez:
>You have misrepresented me badly.  You have also offended >me. No way 
>around it. 

Tim sez:
>Jeez, Wildflower, you really got goin' there.  I must feel great >to get 
>so lathered, to put that long finger on the bad guys, to know >that anyone 
>who doesn't fall smack on 0 or 1 must be a Newtie or >HateMonger of some
 stripe.   

Wow...I'm scorched.  Black as Enzian.  Good cover for Coeur d' Alene and
points unknown.  Don't you think?  Always "ware" a disquise when you enter
the Zone... 

This is some serious shit.  My mailbox is fried. I forgot how ruff and tumble
the American academy is.  How does anyone get through those rank and tenure
meetings any more?

But let's get real...It's only yer systems I'm trying to poke holes in...like
any intellectual Luddite...not yer person...in private or public.  So I'm a
little rough around the edges.  They didn't have PC speech codes when I went
to school and my fav. TP character has always been Pig Bodine.

BONNIE SEZ:

>I am equally offended when I come to this allegedly, to use >your expression
"fluid" realm wherein I'm supposed to feel >how much "freedom " I have.  Oh
all that crap about how >cyberspace is so liberating, , blah,  blah.  I've
tried to be >diplomatic all week.  But you cannot align me 
>with Newt.  I won't be silent on that.  Think what you will.  I >simply have
to tell you how ugly and offensive it is.  You talk >of all those "good"
things you think Pynchon's all about--love, >community, etc.  So where does
that last post leave you?

Wait a minute..  Don't sell Uncle Newtie short.  Here's a secret for you.
 Newt's neither right wing nor conservative.  He's a Benthamite Liberal
(that's Jeremy Bentham, inventor of the Panopticon-check out Discipline and
Punish, there's more in that little book than you'll ever learn here--and
strange Quaker...very Pynchonesque), with all sorts of
good-living-through-technology ideas percolating out of that oddly shaped
head of his.  

As for me?  Well, I guess I am that annoying, sophmoric voice "of astounding
tastelessness," "against which your fractal/chaos theories must struggle."

BONNIE SEZ:
>I hated it when Rush called us "feminazis," using, as he did, a >most
offensive naming technique with which to garner his >forces against women
 who, for the most part, work against >those darker systems of hatred,
 abuse, domination, etc.  It >was a nasty rhetorical trick.

Oh, yeah.  Yer offended @ Rush Limbaugh...and I'm not?  A month ago
the Great Panjandrum himself spent 5 whole minutes of his precious
Snapple-funded airtime attacking me and my buddy Alexander Cockburn for a
story we had written in the Nation. Said we should be tied to a rock and
thrown in a river. (I wanted to take him up on this offer, if just to say
earnestly: "And tough Earthliness forget you, To the stilled Earth say:  I
flow.  To the 'Rush-ing' water speak:  I am."  But Cockburn don't swim.)
  Yes, Rush and I go way back...

If you think my missives are uncouth, lacking in quiet entreaty, wait till
you read Pynchon's letters to the editor in the AVA, very nasty-toned indeed.
 Hilarious, too.


Adios.
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