Benny's job ("kook")
Otto Sell
o.sell at telda.net
Tue Jan 23 03:26:04 CST 2001
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)
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