Meshugginah posts, and other things sundry

[Jules Siegel]

At 08:02 AM 07/6/97 -0400, Tom Stanton <tstanton at nationalgeographic.com> wrote:

>It's not that folks can't accept he's screwed up "a word" but the contention
>(by Jules as I recall) that he routinely screws up the use of words. Jules 
>cites the mis-use of "meshugginah" and then claims that TRP does this
>all the time.  He complains that "Vineland" isn't accurate reportage as
>further support. Finally, he reads GR as a callous attack on some of his
>friends & concludes TRP is an insular outsider who misuses language 
>routinely. *That's* what gets folks to flaming.

You have my position exactly right, except that I'm not talking about mere
words, but whole themes and I don't consider Gravity's Rainbow a callous
attack on some of my friends, but a generally insensitive and dehumanizing
work of political satire based on a hidden agenda that is opposite to the
one that seems to be perceived on pynchon-l.


--Jules Siegel Apdo 1764 Cancun QR 77501
http://www.yucatanweb.com/siegel/jsiegel.htm