Pynchon summed up in one sentence

RICHARD_WILSON at udlp.com RICHARD_WILSON at udlp.com
Thu Jul 15 21:45:07 CDT 1999


> "(Death) means -- well, sleep ... or nightmare, or dawn, or nothing -- or
> it might mean everything."
> --Walter de la Mare

ok, how about:

SL/V/CoL49/GR/VL/MD/usw is a psychological experiment in the form of a body of
fiction whose primary objective is to condition readers into an ultraparadoxical
phase in which it won't be possible to get fooled (as Martin Heidegger was)
again.

--rwilson

"sane fear is a man's best friend" -- john cale




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