society & streamings (was: Theatre/Theater)

Ann Oy annoy at innocent.com
Fri Mar 3 14:19:07 CST 2000


I don't see Pokler as a stand in for anything or anyone. Just a
passive-aggressive twit who may have paid his dues by the end of GR or may
not have. What am I missing? Now the mouthy Red chick is someone.


Lycidas at worldnet.att.net wrote:
>
>Hilarious, yes, extreme we might say, satire no doubt, but
>deadly serious too. 
>Sure, a sendup of social psychology, the sick german mind in
>the fields maturbating, but we have history to consider,
>it's no joke, Pokler in the fields masturbating, Pokler in
>the test fields paranoid, funny, but even with Pynchon's
>"history" (V.)
>we have Weissmann and Rilke and Mondaugen's Story, no joke.
> 



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