South Paws with Claws
Terrance
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Wed Oct 31 10:10:37 CST 2001
All those who think Pynchon is not on the Left side of the spectrum
raise your ugly heads. Off with their mouths. Off with their noses
despite our double faces.
Is there anyone here who seriously thinks Pynchon is not some kind of
Lefty?
No one is squirming.
Where on the Left? AH, that's a horse of a different spectrum.
Pynchon is not personally paranoid.
What does he say in Slow Learner about the Lefty intellectuals (white
collars) failing to get together with the blue collars?
"From the beginning Pynchon's writing has been haunted by
an awareness of T.S Eliot's fundamental point--that a
totally secular culture is absurd and unworkable. Having
killed all the old Gods, we turn and, out of the strangest
materials, reify new and more terrible gods."
--Wolfley
"Freud was right in positing a death instinct, and the
developing of weapons of destructions makes our present
dilemma plain: we either come to terms with unconscious
instincts and drives--with life and with death--or else we
surely die."
Wolfley quoting Brown, LAD
"Pynchon and Brown explicitly reject Marxism as a political
philosophy and theory of human nature, and for the same
reason: its materialism ignores the fact that the worlds is
projection od spirit, and its much touted dialectical method
is merely a cover for the perverted millennialism, itself an
excuse for totalitarian structures."
--Wolfley
And god bless Tiny Tim's underwear.
Stains that we love.
Stand beside him.
And guide him.
And he will learn to piss in the bowl.
>From the left side
to the right side
da da da da
da da daaaa
God bless Tim's underwear
and the Yell-Oh Foam
God bless Tim's underwear
da da da daaaaaaaaaaaaa
"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened
told by people who weren't there."
--Santayana
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