ig farben connection

[Ben Freeman]

I was trying for that tough-love sarcasm, the kind that can really
ruin marriages if used in the wrong place, say, the death of your
spouse's favorite parent. The Ghostbusters rumor I turned up during my
search in the late 80's for a clue to the *obvious* discrepancy
between The Real Ghostbusters and The Original Ghostbusters. One of
these obviously had to be fraudulent. During my foolhardy quest to
plot a straight line across the whole of the cartoon multiverse, I
stumbled upon an interesting sight: a post-horn sewn onto the left leg
of the ape in the Original ghostbusters overalls. If you watch the
thing frame by frame there are a ton of subliminals, but that's
tangental. My younger brother goes to kindergarten with TRP's
son. Many's the day I have cornered him at his cubbyhole and grilled
him for clues to Trp's true identity. "Loser burnout English major!"
he yells. "It's just an extension of Nabokov's bitter game!" Do you
see that?" What I don't understand are the reasons. For me, nabokov
probably got obsessed with the differences between an author and a
narrator really early, you know, the whole humbert's a child molester
so vlad must be too accusation. Naturally, he got sarcastically
obsessed and bitter about the whole lit thing and began to play with
his identity on the printed page. Pynchon's one-upped that, in a
sense. Not only do we have to identify the author's relation to his
work (gr is immoral! heh) but we can't even really identify the
author. i guess there's no hope for speak, mammary, eh? his son
reluctantly confirms these facts if baited with old henry james paperbacks.
He, if anyone, is to blame for the Slimer rumor. If i'm nice will you
guys flesh out the gr/ulysses connection? 
			
> I thought Mr. Freeman's missive was quite edutaining actually.  Of
> course maybe I'm wrong--maybe he didn't mean it in the all-in-good-fun
> style that I took it in.  BTW Ben where does that Ghostbusters rumor come
> from, or did you just make it up to run it up the flagpole to see who'd
> salute?  (Craig--your response is entertaining also.)
> 
> 	Steve Maas