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[David Morris]

--- Mike Weaver <pic at gn.apc.org> wrote:
>  
> kfl quoted David:
> > I've always thought Slothrop's greatest strength
is his ability to "Be Here Now," to not think ahead,
to not worry about death, just to "be natural."
> 
> Strength???
> 
> Mondaugen's law (from memory): Personal density is
directly proportional to temporal bandwidth.
> 
> This IMO is Pynchon's direct challenge to the whole
> Be Here Now mentality.[snip]

I disagree. Try this one on:
(230.30) "I would set you free, if I knew how.  But it
isn't free out there. [snip] I can't even give you
hope that it will be different someday - that They'll
come out, and forget death, and loses Their
technology's elaborate terror, and stop using every
form of life without mercy to keep what haunts men
down to a tolerable level - and be like you instead,
simply here, simply alive...."

David Morris


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