Gottfried & Blicero, Nietzsche & Pynchon

Paul Mackin pmackin at clark.net
Wed Aug 23 07:17:18 CDT 2000


On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Stacy Borah wrote:

> I wrote many things on acid that made sense at the time, 
> but afterward -- well, the meanings eluded me until someone else pointed 
> them out.  And, I think that may be what Pynchon was referring to in the 
> Jules Siegel article (which is where I saw it).  


The "someone else" was able to derive MEANING from what you had written
but it was THEIR meaning--or are you saying they actually helped you to
remember what YOUR meaning has been--so that YOUR meaning was not
permanently lost? (the latter would be somewhat like pyschoanalysis it
might be said)

			P.




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