re Re: re Re: re Re: re Re: SLSL language

pynchonoid pynchonoid at yahoo.com
Fri Mar 14 18:37:58 CST 2003


jbor:
>Language
>and culture are inseparable. Wiping out a language is
>one of the
>strategies
>of genocide and imperialism.

Doug, re jbor's statement above:
>I believe a careful reader can find more than a few
>traces of this tragic reality in Pynchon's
writing.<<<

Keith:
>Ah, more than a trace of melodrama, and straw.

You may be right with "melodrama" but let's spin that
straw into GR's lost Herero gold and oppressed Central
Asian peoples. 

-Doug

". . .and it is poorer the deeper they go. . .ruinous
secret cities of the poor, places whose *names he has
never heard*..."




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