Get out your dictionaries!

christine karatnytsky christinekaratnytsky at juno.com
Sat Sep 30 23:44:52 CDT 2000


Quoth Kappy  (Kappy?!):

> Every schoolchild knows that one way to get someone else to do what 
> you want is to call them "a coward"  for not doing it. 

What every schoolchild knows.  Underlying ideologies and power
structures.  

Seems to me you're talking mythful, though perhaps not mirthful, patterns
here, Kap.  My my my.  The via regia to the unconscious, Hillman calls
it--the metaphor of psyche and mythos.  

This COULDN'T have anything to do with Pynchon, could it?

ck

P.S.  Dave, *stop* that.  You *know* there's no such thing as curried
banana stew.  Jeez.  I made that up, man.  

Now, repeat after Thomas Pynchon:  Fiction.  It was aaaaall fiction.
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