pynchon-l-digest V2 #2343

[Bandwraith at aol.com]

You're welcome, thanks for asking. You heard my comment,
I'm sure, regarding the unavoidable exploitativeness of fiction
(art)? Where to draw the line between exploiter and exploitee
ultimately, it seems to me, is an arbitrary exercise, as it is
between subject/object, observer/observed, knower/known
particle/wave, etc., etc.,... until one is left finally to consider
one's self, and the arbitrary line between self and everything
else: the unavoidable necessity of always and forever 
recognizing the complementarity of knowing and being.

My friend, there is no friend. If only it were the same for enemies.


 From: Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com>

[ Thanks for your answers.

 It's worth noting that former "friends" of Pynchon's have also accused him
 of exploiting them by basing characters on them.]