GRGR1 - Giant Adenoid
Craig Clark
CLARK at superbowl.und.ac.za
Thu Oct 3 02:15:24 CDT 1996
I asked:
> Is that the one that asserts that TRP is De Lillo, and that he wrote
> _Libra_ to prove that Lee Harvey Oswald killed Laura Palmer on the
> instructions of the CIA to keep a TV network from revealing the
> contents of Hangar 12 at Edwards Airforce Base?
You replied:
> No, that's a different one. Mine is:
>
> Pynchon is actually possessed by BOB and then decides to kill Laura Palmer
> who's had "relations" with CancerMan, who, feeling guilty, hired Oswald to
> kill Mullder's pop, who was going to blow the whistle, but failed and hit the
> Prez on accident, which gave DeLillo his material for Libra, who then went
> into hiding after Mao II to avoid implication from the ceaseless probing of
> Scu/lder, who, trying to avenge his father's eventual murder, came upon the
> information that puts Pynchon in the recovered UFo at Area51 at the time.
Oh, dear me, you haven't bought into that one, have you? That's what
They want you to believe - "If They can get you asking the wrong
questions, They don't have to worry about the answers."
Surely you've seen that the weakness in this entire scenario is that it
doesn't explain how Elvis came to possess the wreckage from Roswell
(and he still had it the last time Salman and I visited him)?
Craig Clark
"Living inside the system is like driving across
the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
on suicide."
- Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"
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