Meshugginah posts, and other things sundry
jporter
jp4321 at IDT.NET
Sat Jul 5 14:34:12 CDT 1997
Vaska, at the end of a long post, reveals:
> Compare it to _M&D_ and then let's
>talk about what's happened to Pynchon's human and political vision in the
>meantime. And why, at 60, he feels he should use a cheap little trick
>afforded by 18th-century orthography to get a little mileage out of that
>"Other," for example. There are all sorts of seductions in this world, and
>gorgeous prose is an aphrodisiac in its own right. Which may be all that we
>are getting in _M&D_, I'm afraid.
>
>Vaska
"Cheap little trick?" Why don't you sit the man down and TELL him what to
write about, spell out your whole agenda? Again the Rorschach at work.
"Which may be all that *we* are getting in _M&D_, I'm afraid."
Watch that "we", ace, or you'll be making me afraid, of you.
jody
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