Response to Barbara

[Richard Romeo]

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>it's a debt owed due to the inequality in death.
>There is a debt the rich owe to the poor. The powerful americans owe a
>debt to the poor and downtrodden muslims.
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But the question of what type of assistance is not easily answered. I don't 
disagree for the most part, but such noblise oblige is also a self-centered 
act, propigating markets, free trade, democracy, and the like, for the 
benefit of the host country thus we're back to the same system.

>>There is a huge inequality in >death. This is true not only on the globe 
>>but in Germany and in Los >Angeles, where poor nineteen-year-old couch 
>>Potatoes are murdered by >their drunk husbands while rich computer geeks 
>>fly jet airplanes and >engage in all sorts of risky fun, but live to the 
>>ripe old age of >ninety-two. A debt and  Retribution! This is the message 
>>in those >pynchonian  books. You just don't get it Richard.
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not sure about the analogy, nor the message--there are many passages without 
narrative comment in TRP that seem to harbor a hard-on for 
self-destruction--Pynchon's message thru the wide range of characters is all 
over the map. Find the small comforts and cherish them, but outside of that, 
it's a pretty pale to grim picture of mankind's predictament seems to _one_ 
of the many messages our author is putting forth.

Rich



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