appropriate topics for Pynchon-L

[Phil Wise]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Eckhardt" <thomaseckhardt at yahoo.de>
To: "Phil Wise" <philwise at paradise.net.nz>; "Doug Millison"
<millison at online-journalist.com>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 12:13 PM
Subject: Re: appropriate topics for Pynchon-L


> I was only adressing the actual sentence from Doug
> which I quoted. Fascism in Pynchon or the "real world"
> was not my subject. The sentence clearly implied that
> Terrance and jbor were on the pro-fascist side of
> things. Basically, I wanted to point to this fact and
> ask whether this was Doug's intention. He has denied
> it. Fine.

Okay, sorry I jumped down your throat.  I really didn't see it that way, but
I'm apparently in the minority.

>
> Thomas
>
> P.S. It was not me who created the binary division
> between "anti-fascist" and something else that we may
> reasonably assume is "pro-fascist" or "fascist". In
> the passage from Doug which I quoted this division is
> expressed by the image of the "fence".

Here that phrase is a cliche, by which I mean we no longer see the image (I
really had to think about it to see that the fence image, at which point I
realised that was where the imference came from).  I still believe, even
though the invective has gotten beyond a joke, that it was at worst clumsy
construction.  But things would seem to have gotten beyond the point where
this matters at all.

regards
phil
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