the debate

[Paul Mackin]

On Sat, 2003-05-10 at 16:36, pynchonoid wrote:
> --- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
> [blah blah]
> 
> What I wrote is clear enough: 

And what I wrote was too dangerous to preserve.

P.
> 
> I have to agree with Quail, this is one of the
> dumbest P-list debates yet, and there have been some
> dumb ones in the past.  And the silliest part of it is
> the way that a few P-listers have repeatedly insisted
> that readers who observe the 9-11/Homeland
> Security/etc reference in Pynchon's choice of the word
> "homeland" and the "fascistic disposition" paragraph
> are denying other meanings and references of the word
> "homeland" in the text. That's not true, of course,
> since nobody on Pynchon-L has said anything like
> that.All readers in the present discussion have agreed
> on the more general references of "homeland", while a
> few have insisted that Pynchon cannot be referring to
> 9-11 and the post-9-11 scene,and have used this
> restrictive reading as a springboard to insult those
> who read it this way.
> 
> 
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> 
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