innocence of the slaves

[Henry M]

Then they are not puppet masters, but simply take advantage of 
generally common denominators.

On  4 Feb 97 at 16:20, Murthy Yenamandra wrote:

> Andrew Dinn sez:
> >What was that line of Pynchon's about the innocence of the minions.
> >Sorry, foax, but I think most of us this list are mere minions,
> >innocent as charged. The puppet masters don't (need to) interfere
> >in what we have to say.
> 
> I'm not sure what claim we have on innocence - we're probably at the
> stage where we can pull our own strings. That's why the puppet
> masters don't need to interfere in what we have to say, because we
> go ahead and do what they want us to do anyway, whether we just want
> to get along or want to be one of them.
> 
> Murthy
> 
> -- 
> Murthy Yenamandra, Dept of CompSci, U of Minnesota.
> mailto:yenamand at cs.umn.edu
>               "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
>                Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world"
> 

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