TWILIGHT OF THE IDOL(SMASHER)

[Jay Herzog]

 	Chris is completly on target when she writes that GR has the
speed, while M&D has maturity, tho' not enough maturity to rid it of the
goofy humor thank god. Besides, Keith quoted Nietzsche in his woman
hating neanderthal mode instead of a quote more apropos to TRP, such as
this one from Beyond Good and Evil about art of the future:
	
	...we are the first age that has truly studied 
	"costumes"--I mean those of moralities, articles
	of faith, tastes in the arts, and religions--
      	prepared like no previous age for a carnival in 
	the grand style, for the laughter and high spirits
	of the most spiritual revelry, for the transcendental
	heights of the highest nonsense and Aristophanean
	derision of the world. Perhaps this is where we shall
	still discover the realm of our invention, that realm
	in which we, too, can still be original, say, as
	parodists of world history and God's buffoons--
	perhaps, even if nothing else today has a future, our
	laughter may yet have a future."

Who is Thomas Pynchon if not that "parodist of world history" who 
reaches "the transcendental heights of the highest nonsense"?


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