SLSL Racial Differences

David Morris fqmorris at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 13 10:26:08 CST 2002


--- Steve Maas <tyronemullet at hotmail.com> wrote:
> "It may yet turn out that racial differences are not as basic as questions 
> of money and power, but have served those who deplore them most, in keeping 
> us divided and so relatively poor and powerless."--Thomas Pynchon
> 
> The (or "A") meaning is clear enough to me, it is only in trying to rephrase 
> that meaning that confusion sets in.  Yet another example of P.'s unique 
> skill.

Why is it, then, that you don't bother to clarify it for the rest of us
"dumb-as-dirters".  "P's unique skill" lies in making statements that one
thinks one understands untill one tries to analyze the statement in detail? 
That skill is otherwise known as the ability to bamboozle.

David Morris

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