"fascistic disposition" paragraph
Terrance
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Sat May 10 10:43:16 CDT 2003
And he ran down the lane yelling, "VICTOR DURUY!"
Hip Hip Hop Hurray!
(Jean) Victor. 1811-1894. French historian and politician who attempted
to establish free compulsory primary education. His works include
Histoire des Romains (1843-1844).
(American Heritage Dictionary)
WAS THAT FREE? OR COMPULSORY?
I win. You lose Paul N.
So there.
in the post-Einsteinian world, the Catisian dualistic paradigm that
treats human beings and nature, subject and object, knower and known, as
separate entities, is replaced and instead of fixed and predefined,
conditioned and the conditioner (kinda of funny that P would allude to
Pavlov and the red scare as if only one of those chain saws he so deftly
tosses in the air) we have a lovemaking in the dark where you voyeurs
can't distinguish us apart and we are a one. Turn on the light and you
are no longer an observer or a voyeur, but part of the act.
What P is talking about is what happens when you read it. at a
particular time, cultural and political, and social, post 9-11, you
read. Why turn ourselves in. Why spend life in Nietzsche's prison house
of language, where the author is written by the language and the reader
is circumscribed by the interpretive community of pynchon experts? the
notion that the autonomous text embodies a single determinate meaning,
prevents the potentially pluralistic interpretation of the text. this is
how it goes here. so it goes.
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