Benny's job ("kook")

[Otto Sell]

Terrance wrote:

>  I think "Sick" here is in fact, like delinquent, at
>  least in one very important sense, "healthy."

Yes, because the meaning of a word is turned upside down and this is
prototypical for Pynchon.
If a sick society calls us "sick" this is no offense, but a praise and we
can use it as such. It's like those Blacks calling themselves "nigger" what
I would never do.

Otto

"I'm not black but sometimes I wish I could say I'm not white."
(Frank Zappa)