SLSL Racial Differences

[Bahia Quasimodo]

--- 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.

You can't rephrase it because that would destroy the
skillfully crafted uniqueness of it? 

Even if we could deal with the ambiguity, I still
don't know what the heck the sentence is doing there
sandwiched between P's confession and apology. 



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