re Amerikaka (NP?)

[David Morris]

How could anyone, for G_D's sake, take anything Pynchon says in his novels, 
or even his blurbs, literally?  You'd have to be either a genius or a 
prophet to claim to have the TRUE DOPE on Pynchon (representing here 
"truth").  ACTUALLY, if you claimed so, it would be your own proof against 
yourself (like the drowning of a witch).  Literalism and Fundamentalism are 
nearly the same beast:  they nueter the imagination and prop up 
authoritarianism.  The author is not G_D!  You do not know 
what/why/whom/where/when/ G_D is, "And you never will!"

Dvid Morris

>From: "Paul Mackin" I don't think Pynchonian writings are any kind of guide 
>to our present actions. He's only a novelist for heavens sake. He's not 
>responsible for anything or anybody but himself. When he says, as was 
>quoted a minute ago, that world leaders have been criminally insane he 
>surely does not mean to be taken literally.

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