Meshugginah posts, and other things sundry

[Vaska]

Jody, in defense of Pynchon: 

>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
>
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>"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.

The Pynchon of _GR_ would have blushed to see himself resort to such tricks.
No, what am I saying -- he would cried with shame.  So yes -- cheap, and
little, and tawdry.  

>
>"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.

You scare too easily.  Honest.

Vaska