Down these mean streets ...

[Paul Nightingale]

Terrance wrote:
>
> 
> Being a working class american all I can lay claim to is my labor.
> 

What you lay claim to is your labour-power. A big difference.

> Pynchon will never understand, and Blair-Orwell, never understood,
the
> working class.
> 


There's that real world again, the one that's outside the text. I'm sure
there are aspects of American working-class life that you don't
understand. Your knowledge is partial, always. And as I said before, the
way you make sense of it's a matter of perception. P at least
acknowledges the difficulty of knowing something; I don't think O ever
did (so we agree partially there).


And then: 
> >
> > All texts stand in for that which is absent. All storytellers seek
to
> > REvisit the world and REpresent it.
> 
> 
> This is utter nonsense,
> 
> 

Ouch! Way to go!

But - I rather think you're mistaken. What else are storytellers doing?
You demonstrate my point in what you say above about P, O and the w/c.

And then:
> 
> Freud? What fetish?
>

The old guy with a white beard. He was a storyteller too.