IG Farben & French Shakespeare.1&2
Paul Mackin
paul.mackin at verizon.net
Tue Feb 27 17:34:35 CST 2001
Other writers satiate our quest for truth; P makes hungry where most he
problematizes.
P.
On Tuesday 27 February 2001 17:55, you wrote:
> There are problematic distinctions betwixt said
> "muses," said "masters," "the aesthetic," "the
> political," at al., being made here, methinks. And
> I'd suggest that perhaps those Pynchonian texts,
> perhaps moreso than most any others, problematize
> precisely those distinctions. Think, as I believe
> Terrance has been, as I've been attempting to think,
> that Romanticist love-death thing, liebestod, maybe
> even that lustmord, whatever, for example, the
> contexts, contingencies, and, esp., casualities
> (fictional, actual, potential) thereof ...
>
> --- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 27 February 2001 12:47, MalignD wrote:
> > > <<Yes, it seems safe to say this was his primary
> >
> > goal, but his primary
> >
> > > goal does not preclude these others. The two are
> >
> > in fact not incompatible,
> >
> > > but two sides of the same text.>>
> > >
> > > I would argue rather that one can't do both
> >
> > properly.
> >
> >
> > As St. Matthew sez:
> >
> > "No man can serve two masters; for either he will
> > hate the one, and love the
> > other, or else he will hold to the one, and despise
> > the other. Ye cannot
> > serve God and mammon."
> >
> > A truth that has been challenged (lately by FBI
> > spyster Hanssen) but never
> > overthrown.
> >
> > P.
>
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