blaming Pynchon

[barbara100 at jps.net]

No, Terrance, I can't write anything for you on M&D.  I'm not reading it.  I
couldn't give up GR in time for M&D. Right now I'm reading Ulysses.  It came
recommended by a fine Australian gent I know. If you want me to write you a
'blurb' on Gravity's Rainbow and what I learned about war and humanity from
Thomas Pynchon, I can do that. I've been toying with the idea of writing
something on Byron and his bulb buddies anyway. I think there's a similarity
between them and Blicero and his soldier(s). It's not a big similarity, but
just enough for one to make a 'connection.'  You know, bulbs afraid to
explode against corporate corruption, boys afraid to speak up before being
sent to die--they're both being FUCKED over by the POWERS that be in the
worst and most degrading ways IMAGINABLE, and they're too fucking SCARED to
do anything about it!  There's tremendous POWER in their numbers, but the
people are too SCARED and too manipulated by external POWER they don't even
unite against their rape and destruction.  It's been happening everywhere
the same way for as long as we can remember.  We're so accustomed to it now,
we don't even feel it slipping in.

Maybe you won't like that subject though. I could see how it might turn your
stomach a little. How about the 'brotherhood' theme, then?  Half-breed
Enzian on a mission to erase his race. There's a curious bit of irony.
Makes a girl wanna look twice, you know.  I could talk some about that.  If
Enzian and Tchitcherine aren't a picture of  the brotherhood of man, I don't
know what is.  Pynchon makes sure (or not) his reader comes away from that
book feeling 'connected' to the world. And if you don't catch it in the
humanism, you can catch it in the psychoses. In Paranoia all things are
connected too.

Go ahead, loosen that sphincter of your soul,  raise your ass to the
Master's whip. It hurts gooood to see our humanity--its brutality and well
as its love.

Barbara



----- Original Message -----
From: Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 5:39 PM
Subject: Re: blaming pynchon


>
>
> "barbara100 at jps.net" wrote: How I expect you'd notice *that* when you
> can't even see the obvious messages in his work.
>
> Messages? Like what? Come on Barb give us just one little hint.
> Write one post about Pynchon. Not Terrance, not anything else. Kust one
> little post
> about M&D. I'd like that.
>
> PS Maybe you'll set a trend. Hey, maybe even Doug will post something
> about Pynchon.
> Not a link or a mention, but an honest to god post about one passage in
> the books.
> Don't get too excited folks. He can't do it.