blaming Pynchon

[John Lundy]

Okay, you guys.  After that corruscating prose, tell me with a straight 
face that Babs is Doug.  If they really are, I'm prepared to sleep with 
Doug.

But I think I'm okay.

The girl can think and she can write, which makes her almost fucking unique 
on the sadly discredited list.

On Thursday, 11 October 2001 14:37, barbara100 at jps.net 
[SMTP:barbara100 at jps.net] wrote:
> 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.