Benny's job ("kook")

[Paul Mackin]

Otto Sell wrote:

> 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.

Yes, definitely, to both posters. Meant to comment on Terrance's comment but
forgot.

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