is sloth lost? (was: "underlying causative process")

[Terrance]

Dickens right, Little Dorrit comes to mind, Prison, debtor's
prison, can you imagine you and your family in a Prison for
the slothful--what we in our PC world might call the
post-military-industrial complex challenged? Ah Humanity! 

Bartleby is Melville's first Giant STEP for mankind, of
course when you are Herman, a baby step is big big big, so
Bartleby is human by not being so. 

 Pynchon seems to owe a huge debt to Melville's Bartleby,
his magazine fiction generally. 

 Moby-Dick, maybe Mardi is the novel here too, the sloth of
the writer. 

But Confidence-Man is the icing on the cake. Yeah, we are
talking about playing with a word, can you say Charity,
Confidence. 

Everyday is christmas eve on OLD east main, days getting
longer after the birth of Jesus or what, or April's Fools,
and the gift of tongues, interesting phrase, Paul's letter
to the C's I, one of them anyway, 12:28, the gift of this,
of that....Melville, now I love every word the man wrote.
Bloom says Shakespeare made the human or some such, well
what does he say about his great (no Quotes) American estate
Herman Melville? Anxiety, I think P got his influence from
that fearful Jesuit, but his anxiety is Melville. Ah
Shakespeare!