That useful substance

[Jeremy Osner]

rj wrote:

> Surely you need to read that 1984 "useful" as signifying *something*,
> don't you? I do, anyway. Otherwise aren't you implying that Pynchon's
> comment is vague, or sloppily-written?
>

Ooh... that's a good point. I think "sloppily-written" applies more to my
previous post than to Pynchon's comment.

Better luck next time,
J

--
We seek sex, and are left with two private bodies on a stained bed.
The larger erotic dream, the god, has eluded us. It is so whenever,
moving out of ourselves, we look for extensions of ourselves.

V. S. Naipaul
_The Mimic Men_