am i paranoid?

[David Morris]

>From: "Otto Sell" Seb wrote:
><Or maybe (and I think this is closer to the text) paranoia just
><becomes something to deal with as a not very interesting or
><promising fact of daily life, like rain or a bad knee.
>
>Nope Sir,
>paranoia in GR is on binary oppositions
SNIP
>There´s only paranoia (everything´s connected) or no-paranoia (no
>connection, everybody does the journey just once and alone and dies,
>naturally or in a an accident or war, a sense for existentialism, absurdity
>and the postmodern condition are natural reactions of an intelligent human
>being in the 20th century feeling this).
SNIP
>I tried to make clear the point about Pynchon´s strictly binary use of
>paranoia on my website by putting all the proverbs together: master vs.
>creatures, innocence vs. immorality, questions vs. answers, hide vs. seek.

I think you've got the essential formula here, but the richness which 
flowers from this simple, maybe even boring, binary I think eventually aims 
to provide a middle ground.

Ironically, I think Lyle Bland accidentally finds a way into that place and 
goes there to stay, although _you_ might say he's simply accessed the 
ultimate paranoid state.  I think that "ground" (or at least one of them - 
there might be others) is offered in the construct of the Earth as living 
unified organism.  Again, this might just be further riffs into a paranoid 
construct, and I might be way off base, but a kind of "spirituality" which 
is apart from Paranoia seems to me hinted at here and there...

BTW, your web site is surely full of riches, but this ignorant yank can't 
read a lick of it past the entry door.  My loss.

David Morris


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