My Karma ran over my...oh, you know the joke.

[barbara100 at jps.net]

Remember last week, Quail, Doug said (somewhat sarcastically) that some folks here on the P-List didn't take Pynchon seriously enough, and you wrote back  pissed that he would make such a 'self-serving' comment? Then I defended him saying, I thought it was an "astute observation" but didn't wanna cite any evidence because I didn't think it would do any good? Well, you said something in your latest rant to me that I think serves the point well:

"That's why it's fiction, Barbara. The best use I could think of for 
Gravity's Rainbow in a real life situation where someone keeps 
stepping up a holy war against you is to use it to whack them on the 
head before they stick an AK-47 up your taxpaying ass."

If the Master himself can't convince you, what chance do I stand?  

I'll hang it up there, if it's all the same to you... 

Barbara


Original Message:
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From: The Great Quail quail at libyrinth.com
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 18:40:40 -0800
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: My Karma ran over my...oh, you know the joke.


Barbara writes,

>Don't you think Pynchon's trying to point out  a lot
>of these 'lessons that never get learned' in his fiction?  I really don't
>think it's just my Subjectivity talking.

That's why it's fiction, Barbara. The best use I could think of for 
Gravity's Rainbow in a real life situation where someone keeps 
stepping up a holy war against you is to use it to whack them on the 
head before they stick an AK-47 up your taxpaying ass.This is not 
Vietnam, no matter how much you and Doug like to think it is. Not all 
wars are the same.



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