That Playboy nonsense

[Jasper Fidget]

If this all adds to the great virtual novel, then how can any part of
the text be unTRUE?  And who would get to decide?  Our novel is large,
it contains multitudes.  Even parts that are less than sane (read:
barbara).

Jasper Fidget


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org 
> [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf Of Julian Munro
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 9:48 AM
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: That Playboy nonsense
> 
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> What really baffles my mind is that you people attack each 
> other and everything at the slightest provocation. Is this 
> really how you approach the written language? I would suggest 
> trying so empathise with the author (of any literature be it 
> electronic or printed), in which case you would begin to 
> understand the work on a subjective level instead of all the 
> pseudo-academic-referenced-psycho-babble that has been 
> clogging up my Inbox for weeks now. Analyse the Script don't 
> Judge it! What Pynchon and David Lynch and all your other 
> Esteemed artists are trying to say is that no man acts alone. 
> There are forces beyond our understanding that control our 
> futures and destiny. Maybe there never was a Bin Laden. Maybe 
> never in the real sense as our perceived sense of CNN would 
> like us to believe. I could go on forever here, but hey, I'd 
> rather write a book about it and call it Gravity's Rainbow - 
> The Bush Years. Anyone in this esteemed literary circle ever 
> see a David Mamet movie called: "Wag The Dog"? Really. This 
> Doug and Barbara thing is infantile. If you were writing a 
> novel (and BTW this is exactly what all of us on the web are creating
> together- one huge novel) - would this be your choice of 
> contribution. There are many choices and many realities. I 
> like to keep mine sane. Will we get back to the TRUE TEXT or 
> do I need to unsubscribe?
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