They

[Paul Mackin]

On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 08:19, Williams Kris A SSgt 305 MDSS/SGSL wrote:
> I don't think I could say it any better than Quail does in the GR intro,
> that 'we' are the preterite or common and 'they' are the elect or
> anointed.  

Plus there is always the implication that the Us/Them system is in need
of Reversal or Redefinition. 



> 
> http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_grintro.html
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Maas [mailto:tyronemullet at hotmail.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 8:43 PM
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: They
> 
> I appreciate the responses, lotsa short and pithy thoughts, and of
> course 
> T.'s opus. I'm not quite satisfied yet though, I think we're missing 
> something, but I don't know what. I mean They're very strange, there's 
> almost Lovecraftian overtones at times. I'll have to keep reading the
> damn 
> books I guess.
> 
> Steve Maas
> 
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