Check out The Pomo Group

[Mitchell R Coffey]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cjhurtt6 at aol.com at Internet
> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 2:24 PM
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org at INTERNET
> Subject: Check out The Pomo Group
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>  http://www.halcyon.com/postmod/jux.html
> this is my favorite.
>
> modern                              postmodern
> Hope; optimism                  Hopelessness; gnawing pessimism
>
> just like that peppy king of modernists william faulkner!

Also Pound and Elliot come to mind, princely optimists.

> i do find it strange that anyone would perceive postmodernism
> as a threat.  even though it's a buzzword, very few people know or care
> what it's about.

You mean why do our political reactionaries contrive to blame their
problems on a relative handful of intellectuals in fields without direct
policy influence?

Well, for one, it doesn't work to blame it all on communism anymore.

Mitchell Coffey
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I read a book on cognitive dissonance once,
but it only proved my point.