Subject/Objective Reality/Illusion

[David Morris]

Bravo, Judy!

>From: "Judy Panetta" Subjective is me me me it's all about me but enough 
>about me what do you
>think of me me and my shadow me and the moon moon in june april and
>september try to remember that no member of the human race keeps warm my 
>bit
>of space myself and I Aye-Aye eye of the storm eye of the needle needle me
>need me some loco weed locomotive emotive demotive denotive of heart and
>soul and my mother's little black cat.
>
>Objective connotes the cadaver on a slab incisive insights with a short
>sharp chop ticking off lists noting the time intervals endeavoring to
>extricate and separate exceedingly fine detail as fact fact is final and
>sterile and a sterling example of good scholarship.> > From: 
>owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org]On
> > Behalf Of barbara100 at jps.net
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 10:52 PM
> > To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> > Subject: Re: Subject/Objective Reality/Illusion
> >
> >
> > So what are objective and subjective readings anyway?  We love to
> > toss those
> > words around--I remember them bouncing off the walls in class--but what 
>do
> > they mean in the context of reading a novel?  A Thomas Pynchon novel, 
>for
> > example. Is an objective reading one where we focus on the intent of the
> > writer--Gottfried as a gross example of the consequence of war
> > and political
> > corruption--and a subjective reading one where we feel the text through
> > personal filters--the flush of my cheeks when I pictured him stuffed 
>into
> > his death capsule wrapped in bridal lace and Imipolex G? If these are 
>our
> > objective and subjective choices, I'd have to ask, How could we
> > read one way
> > without the other? Objective/Subjective--it's like the yin and yang of
> > literature, and reality.
> >
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