WWII in GR, And Me And The Humanist Self-Taught Man

[David Morris]

Michael,

The Pynchon list has endure and enjoyed a widely entertaining and 
exacerbating parade of fools.  The ability to get the P-list's goat has been 
honed to an art by some, and those have achieved an ignoble fame in these 
parts.  Your quips, however, need work.  They really don't move, cut, 
entertain, or annoy very much.  You are a piker at this game.  You are 
boring me, at least.  And I really do appreciate a really good jokester...

Maybe you should try another persona, or maybe another list.

Whatever,
David Morris


>From: MichaelB
>
>--- Mr. Monroe wrote:
>
>'...you...particularly interest me...'
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>
>Thank you so much, and, kind sir, I accept, as is, your apology for
>boring me ... us all perhaps ... to tears, with, and/or without, your
>incessant blabber about ... general blabber, too, so ... 'the
>holocaust', so, you'd surely admit, sir, ... kindly.  I admit, too,
>that, as you say (and us all are we not?) regarding ... being ...
>reason ... that I list, for no other relevant purspose than, to
>learn, so ... thank you.  I fully intend (in this context) ...
>totally ... to listen for your, and all (and even mine) ... that is
>everybody's ... meaning.  Crackin suggested, and I heard, and
>learned, as (forgive me, I'm sorry, but I believe) yourself, that if,
>during discussion, from which we all listen, so ... par excellence
>... and learn, from, and for, we use the term 'the holocaust', that
>then, we should, in so discussing, first define our terms, so ...
>rather constricting though, how he gave only three possible, as one
>really ought to say, said definitions.  You see the problem with (not
>that there really is ever any ... ) that, is that, in this way ... my
>definition fits none of those, so elequently stated defintions.  You
>see, Mr. Mono, I consider the holocaust to be, you see, so ...
>ellipses ... only those events that took place (and I trust you have
>no problem with me suggesting 'event' to be taken as a totalization
>in that context ...  i.e., the event) on Kurfustenstrasse between
>Postdamer and Bundesalle in Berlin on August 3, 1942, from 3:15 to
>3:45pm.
>
>m
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>
> > .. well, then, you can just skip any relevant posts.  Sorry to have
> > bored
> > (if not jbored) you with not only one of the major events of the
> > twentieth century, not only the sufferings and deaths of six to
> > twelve
> > million human beings, but with something which is indeed manifest
> > in and
> > relevant to what I had understood to be the topic at hand, i.e.,
> > Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, of which there is, no doubt,
> > plenty
> > to go around for ev'ryone, so ... If something doesn't particularly
> > interest me, I either figure that out pretty quickly, skip right on
> > by
> > it, and don't complain, or I give it a hearing, and maybe even get
> > interested.  But, hey, perhaps unlike some, I'm just here (in
> > particular,
> > in general) to maybe learn a little something, so ...
> >
> > But, you know, if anyone's going to claim that something is
> > irrelevant
> > to  the structure, content and/or meaning of Gravity's Rainbow, of
> > any
> > text (for starters), much less appeal to something as inaccesible
> > to them
> > as "authorial intention" (esp. that of one Thomas Ruggles Pynchon,
> > Jr.),
> > they really ought then to give some indication as to what they
> > think,
> > believe, hell, know, even, said structure, content, meaning and/or
> > inetntion to be.  So school me, MickeyB, school us all (just don't
> > ask me
> > to take care of your hygiene problems, is all I ask) ...
> >
> > MichaelB wrote:
> >
> > > The vigor in this regard stems from the fact that not only is
> > 'the
> > > holocaust' irrelevant to the structure content meaning and value
> > of
> > > Gravity's Rainbow but that 'the holocaust' itself as an
> > historical
> > > fact is boredom incarnate.  To go nitpicking around the Rainbow
> > text,
> > > sniffing out little phrases and little words and by some (though
> > none
> > > too potent) stretch of the imagination sewing them together into
> > a
> > > web of Intention by the author is as interesting and pertinent to
> > the
> > > totality of the text as is me picking dingleberries out of my
> > ass.
> >
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