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[Billy Genocide]

I find the overall tone of GR to be rather ambivalent. The narrative voice
is often humorous but, of course, the themes are dark and nightmarish.

On 8/1/06, richard baillie <richbaillie at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> i don't know, slothrop has a good run for his money before he jumps the
> couch
>
> as does Roger Mexico before Jessica stabs him in the back
>
> even Titcherine has his kicks
>
> who wouldn't want to be the pirate queen of the baltic run that nobody
> fucks with
>
> there are lots of positive role models in GR, the nightmare exists in
> those who bring all their own hangups and feverish imaginations to a
> reading of GR
> On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:42:04 -0400, "Paul Mackin"
> <paul.mackin at verizon.net> said:
> >
> > On Aug 1, 2006, at 9:49 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:
> >
> > > I'm under the impression that Those Pynchonian Texts
> > > say otherwise ...
> >
> >
> > Pynchonian texts will hopefully never be anyone's everyday life,
> >
> > In case you hadn't noticed GR is a friggin nightmare.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > --- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >> do we want to live in happyville or pain city?
> > >>
> > >> in our everyday lives, we will 99 times out of 100
> > >> choose happyville....
> > >
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It is difficult/ to get the news from poems/ yet men die miserably every
day/ for lack/ of what is found there.
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