I rode a tank, held a general's rank, when the blitzkrieg raged

[David Morris]

>From: Terrance
>
>If our list definition, clearly not what Pynchon describes in his essay, is 
>expanded to include Mick Jagger, than we are talking about a a different 
>Badass altogether. Aren't we? P's essay asks, is it ok to be a luddite? I 
>don't see how Mick Jagger has much to do with this question. The question 
>we have raised here, and I'm just being lazy, actually very busy and so I 
>have not taken up Scott's actual question to the list, is about Blicero's 
>being a Badass.

Jagger came into the discussion with your proposal that a Badass is a "man's 
man," thus ruling out Blicero as one.

>"Now, given that kind of time span, it's just not easy to
>think of Ned Lud as a technophobic crazy."
>
>This is important I think, the Badass is not nuts.

OK, and Franky and King Kong had their reasons also.  But I don't think this 
would disqualify Blicero either.

>he is usually male, universally admired by men

This one doesn't fly.  There are MANY men that HATE the Badass.  That's why 
he's usually killed off.

>P turns what he calls Luddite fiction and this is where is becomes very 
>clear that B/W is not a Badass and Mick Jagger is not even in the book.

This doesn't fly either, because this letter doesn't mention GR, so any 
Badass discussion which applies this letter has to remain open.

David Morris
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