Challenge To Millison (86 him)

[arthur bryant]

As easy as eating a humble pie and avoiding mastheads
on high and delivered. 

Let's hope that humility may anchor this good ship of
fools for a while so that we can sail into the shallow
and deep waters of Pynchon's Slow Learnings  and not
fear death by shoaling vanity and profound narcissism.


As we navigate our way through SLSL it is already
clear that our first captain sails by setting a brave
course guided by humility. Let's let him captain this
ship. 

All this talk of torture, rape, muder, policing, legal
warnings, legal actions, is a sham and a shame. The
list owners should put an end to it. We all know who
wrote those poems that "threatened" Millison. Millison
knows it was not Terrance. And we all know that
Millison is a pathological liar hell bent on revenge
and destruction. 

But, I wonder if the fascistic Millison and Monica
terror campaign  is the reason, conciously or
unconsciously, that Dave Monroe failed to note that to
86 is to kill, destroy, annhilate. Either way or no
way at all, this terror campaign will sink this ship
if do not put an end to it. We can not be guided out
of the shoals and into the deep if we fear free and
open discussion because a Millison mutiny is imminent
and unavoidable. 

We don't need to challange him, his multiples or his
articulate assassin. 

There are members of this crew who  have only one
notion for crossing the ocean and that is to ring
their own bell violently. The seek revenge because
their ships are sunk in hate. Let them tread water
till the devil takes them down.  

86
Pynchon has passed onto what Bloom calls Apophrades or
"the return of the dead." The technology that permits
him to raise  his precursors in the body of his
youthful self from the dead is writing (the Poem or
the SL Intro.). What is in fact Kenosis some read as
Pynchon pulling our legs. He is not being disingeuous.
He's being honest. The stories are apprentice works.
However, fearing what Bloom calls "absolute deflation"
during Askesis ("self-purgation") Pynchon includes a
journeyman's effort ("The Secret Integration", noting
that the story holds up pretty well), accepts the
laurel for his V., directs us aways from his "resting
on his laurels" (CL49) and is silent about his
masterwork. 

PS At what point does it become clear that Pynchon
read _TR_ of WG? I was not around when these books
were being read but I read someplace that _TR_ was a
book that was, almost like Melville's Moby-Dick, not
read until it was recovered. 
    







--- Keith McMullen <keithsz at concentric.net> wrote:
> You present yourself as being above the lowbrow
> stuff that goes on on this
> list. I challenge you for one week to speak only in
> a way that lives up to
> Pynchon Notes quality of participation, to refrain
> from meta-list postings,
> and to ignore all attacks and baitings. This
> challenge includes that you
> refrain from parenthetical remarks directed at your
> detractors.
> 
> If you are who you claim to be, this challenge will
> be easy as pie.
> 


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