After having read CoL49, this is what one of my students said ...

[john winthrop]

Well how old are your students?
Not that it's a good excuse, just wondering.
to know how important the mail system is you would have to use it every once 
in a while, some how the more it goes the less snail mail we are acquainted 
with. did you read about that high school survey showing a majority of 
students thought the first amendment to be too liberal?
hm.
welcome to our world.

>From: Chris Pinner <chris.pinner at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: Chris Pinner <chris.pinner at gmail.com>
>To: Tim Strzechowski <Dedalus204 at comcast.net>
>CC: Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: After having read CoL49, this is what one of my students said 
>...
>Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:21:25 -0500
>
>Wait a minute...there ar epeople who don't get how important the mail
>system is to the world?  How they control most major communications at
>some time or another?  Holy crap...not to mention all the other stuff
>going on in there.  I find it hard to imagine a system that holds more
>subtle power over the people than the postal service.
>
>
>On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:46:20 -0600, Tim Strzechowski
><Dedalus204 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > "I can't believe that we actually had to read this book. It was based on 
>an
> > obsession over an underground mail system. (How exciting...) Why would
> > anyone even care if there was mail getting delivered by means of 
>something
> > other than the system set up by the U. S. Government."
> >
> >
> >
> > Welcome to MY world . . .
> >
> >
> > Oy
pynchon-l at waste,org

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