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[Dave Monroe]

Ah, thank you, exactly what I was expecting, and from
whom, AND you've named them for yourself.  Sorry,
tired, cranky, going through post partum depression,
as it were, but there ARE always reliable ways of
eliciting responses here.  Predictable responses, from
predictable respondents, but ...

--- David Morris <fqmorris at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> list-farts

... but, no, really, jbor--Rob? Robert? I figure, go
with what's onscreen, but ...--really, no such people
as "intruders" here, but y'all know just how difficult
it is for us to read each other here without hearing
some sort of insinuation or another.  And I'm STILL
never sure, but ... but we'll no doubt see how you
read the post in question as well, so ...

But one does find it distressing here that the only
sure way to generate any activity here is to get under
peoples' skin, rather than to pick (pique?) their
brains.  No, I'm not complaining that the fifty-some
posts (many pushing that 10k List limit) I managed to
fire off in the past week went largely ignored, and
pointedly so by some, I suspect ...

But I do appreciate those who bounced the ball back
over to my side of the court.  Sorry if I
short-shrifted anyone as far as responses go (though I
did send off several quick, er, thankses as well
offlist), but I spent what "free" time I had reading,
typing, posting.  There might have been some thinking
involved as well, but ...

Daffy or Donald?  Well, that "Don Aldo" is the smoking
gun, of course, but,  perusing the archives--and many
of us being, presumably, of the Warner Brothers rather
than the Disney generation--those who commented on it
mentioned Daffy as well.  Memo to self: genealogy of
the cartoon duck voice.  By the way, the "Margherita =
Daisy" thing already came up a couple of times before
I got to it, dammit ...

Thanks to all for yr help on "The Green Pip."  You've
already gone beyond what's in the archives that I'd
found.  I've obviously been cutting corners, sorry ...

I know there are no small number of you out there with
no small interest in that duck, and will appreciate
anything you might have to say about it, on or
offlist.  I'd especially like to thank Keith for
sending along what I think might have been previously
posted possible, probable, even, Rosicrucian allusions
(see, here, "Erotick Machinery") ...

And, again, did indeed hint at a couple of possible
Nazi allusions--Prussian military interest in flying
automatons, double-lines of torch-wielding German
mystics--but, as far as "occult roots" go, again, what
seems a peravsive theme of the novel are the occult
skeletons in the Enlightenment closet itself.  Not
that Frances Yates' The Rosicrucian Enlightenment
(1972) was published just as Pynchon was presumably
putting Gravity's Rainbow to press and setting in on
Mason & Dixon ...

Now let's all play nice again, shall we?  Esp. as I'll
be going in from recess shortly anyway.  Anyway, will
try to keep up, but, by and large, you likely won't
have me to kick around (or not) 'til very near the
very end here.  Must ... resist ... urge ... to host
... but seriously, folks, thanks again, always
appreciate at the VERY least the oportunity to
exercise the ol' Merton College Library, so ...

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