Advocations & freedom

Henry Musikar scuffling at hotmail.com
Wed Jan 26 21:29:31 CST 2000


>From: Lycidas at worldnet.att.net
>Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 22:15:24 -0500
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>Henry Musikar wrote:
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> > Freedom is good
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>Freedom is good, but what's freedom and what's good about
>it? Is Mondaugen's freedom good? How about Foppl's freedom?
>How about Zoyd's freedom? How about McAfee's? How about the
>Herero child Sarah's freedom? How about Pig Bodine's
>freedom? How about Weissmann's freedom? How about Mason's
>freedom? How about the freedom of the slaves of Dixon's
>outrage? Why talk of lowest common denominators? What's
>free? Is Enzian free? Is Slothrop? Is Jamf? Is the System,
>the Firm, the Studio, Them, The Elect, the Elite, free? Are
>all these freedoms good? How about the freedom of the Dora
>prisoners? Is Weissmann's self imprisonment--the thick
>mascara on his lashes painting the prison bars on his eye
>glasses--any worse than imprisonment of the rebellious slave
>with sore feet and a ring around his throat, than the
>concubines and workers of a new order of freedom? Freedom is
>good. Pynchon advocates freedom. A satirist has got to have
>a moral center. Pynchon advocates freedom, yes,
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Sure took a lotta words to get to what I said to begin with. Brevity is 
good.

AsB4,

Mu

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