(Fwd) Re: Trust-Love, Paranoia-Chaos, Leni

[Byrnes Weir]

At 10:12 PM 7/30/97 -0700, ray gonne wrote:
>Meg Larson wrote:
>  Paranoia is, on
>> one hand, a heightened sense of awareness and an incredibly fine-tuned
>> attention to detail.  There has been talk lately of writers as
>> spys/observers and paranoids in general are a lot like that--they eavesdrop
>> and window-peek not so much b/c they think they're the object of a
>> conspiracy, but moreso, that IN CASE there _is_ a conspiracy, they can
>> protect themselves.
>> 
>> And ultimately that seems to be what Pynch's paranoiacs are
>> after--self-protection/preservation.  And although they tend to exhibit a
>> lot of the same symptoms, paranoiacs are not necessarily sociopaths.
>
>
>nice tie-in with pynchon at the end of your post--point well put. wrt
>credit cards, drivers license, etc, it seems to me the really
>interesting paranoids might find those all to easy to be concerned
>about. by interesting i mean in this case complex, beyond run of the
>mill fears that our desires are tracked by credit card purchases or
>video interests. i agree with what was said earlier re the paranoid's
>sense that somehow the plot points directly to them, or that the
>paranoid is somehow vital to the scheme (in a way the paranoid cannot
>know, or at any rate is not meant to know). pynchon toys with this
>nicely in GR with the fear of a rocket with one's name on it, a
>complication (paranoid) of the knowledge that a rocket can strike at any
>moment, completely unexpected, further complicated by the (seeming)
>randomness of strike. makes me think also of gulf war bombs painted
>"this one's for you, saddam." as i read GR it occurs to me that
>slothrop's tendency to get a hardon when he thinks about a rocket
>falling close enough to kill him will be manipulated by pynchon and/or
>the characters that surround slothrop as a sort of early-warning radar
>system.
>at page 83 now,
>ray
>
>
         An unusual paranoid: Salvador Dali.
         He either stole or said: Paranoids? They are always right.
Keep reading Ray

It gets better

                       We are all going to have to read it again.

Keep your copy.   You might like it 50 yrs from now.


All the best,
B