More Koanstuff and A Modest Proposal (was Koan Answered?)

[Rick Vosper]

At 12:09 PM 7/10/97 -0300, Vaska writes:
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>>Rick, it's probably somewhere in _Vineland_.  Thought I saw it, too.
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>Thanks for the tip. I'll check into it tonight. It's time I re-read VL
anyway, after all the dissing Jules has given it.
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>>And you don't think he's ringing some changes on those answers?  Hmmm.
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>I don't think so, personally (as I said earlier, I think the joke ended
with the LED), but I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
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>As part of our ("our", as in The List) exploration of Pynchon's relative
depth of understanding of many, many theoretical and religious systems, we
may want to attempt a sort of "Pynchonian Epistomology"...trying to define
the boundaries of P's knowledge. 
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>Yikes. I just typed that sentence, and it scares me already.
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>We know the man's darned smart, and even the most devout among us will
admit there are limits to his encyclopedic understanding, so perhaps the
next question should be...what are they?
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>--rick