MDMD(2): Deflation and Friendship flip-flop

[David Casseres]

Andrew sez
>.... That's why [Pynchon]
>contrasts paranoia with anti-paranoia. To show that paranoia is a
>common consequence of taking the world even the slightest bit
>seriously, especially when the world has a habit of bending the rules
>on you.

A-and this is spelled out explicitly in the remark toward the end of 
Gravity's Rainbow about paranoia being just the leading edge of the 
realization that Everything Is Connected.

>.... Anyone who thinks Pynchon takes the White
>Visitation psy or psi wierdos seriously has got to be kidding.

Hear, hear.


Cheers,
David