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> fnicki dzolta wrote:
> 
> i guess this is as relevant
> as that other message about turkeys
> 
> bye

why not? it's certainly as relevant as we chose to make it
and we chose to make it so, so pick a Dick book tell us
more.... and the turkey too is relevant, it being the
subject of TRP's fiction from V. to M&D--Blake's America,
apocalypse, colonies and privies,  extermination,
annihilation, food, guns--that's in that byron the bulb
fable--and histories inverted poles mixing black and white
and all the rainbow colors like that Paola, yeah she's the
one,  and Franklin's America too,  btw I think Gebel is the
city, is the desert (Mts etc.),   is the mind of modern
man,  the city is the mind in Pynchon, the city is
Dickensian too and Melville, Dick is cool, relevant,
Melville is relevant, read The Confidence-Man, if you have
not read it you have not read the great american novel,
whatever that may be, and in my opinion, a novel more
important to reading Pynchon than any novel by any of his
contemporaries, yeah, get that Northwestern-Newberry edition
with the notes in the back, those men in Oediapa's life, the
gift of tongues, shape shifting confidence and charity, the
city, Pynchon says, literary theft, he ain't being
disingenuous, no, CL is just what he says, critics make it
out to be what they will, Weisenburger would even strip it,
all of pynchon in fact, of its satirical Norm, its satire of
anything but narrative totalized and blah, blah, nope, like
McLintic Sphere represents Pynchon's stoicism, what crap
man, pynchon ain't no stoic, can't be, it ain't ok to be no
stoic in Pynchon's books, read them, now Tom Wolfe maybe,
but stoics are rational dude, they do got that pantheistic
thing going, a plus, but now take existential gnosticism and
run it through the shadows of gnostic film's  double light
and existential stoicism--that male Hemingway, don juan 60s
philosophy is just one more target of satire, Speaking of
confidence and shape-shifting, check out Sarah Jones, 
youknowwhatImsaying? Alienation, fragmentation, all is phony
postmodern language on a stick turning and turning like a
pigeon in rat's alley this good friday morning in left over
turkey land.