What I happened upon....

[Dave Monroe]

I have no problem with dropping the subject.  It
wouldn't have been gone on this long had not concerns
been raised, aspersions been cast, et al.  Esp.
half-assed ones concerned less with anyone's actual
well-being as with feigning self-righetous indignity
in the name of simply taking a particularly ill-aimed
potshot at someone.  That being a constant irritant to
me here, I figured, hell, take it at face value and
run it to its logical conclusion.  If yr gonna be
concerned, be Concerned ...

My point being, Judy found something interesting, a
few of might have simply said, yeah, that IS
interesting, here's maybe something else, and taht
would have been it.  Had not people started saying,
hey, there's no reason to have found this, no reason
to have brought it to our attention, this is "creepy"
(which implies, wheoever found/posted/finds interest
in it is "creepy" as well), had not this pervasive
paranoia (me, i've been watching to Nightline or
whatever entrapment specials) about Kids Online and
The Dirty Old Men (or whomever) Who Stalk Them reared
(or pretnded to, at any rate) its ugly head here,
well, at least I wouldn't have been set off, so ...

Meanwhile, I've posted a few excerpts from that Killen
book either directly on or seemingly related to
Gravity's Rainbow, and people have been talking about
extracurricular reading, I thought that might provide
some inetresting, possibly productive, and relatively
uncontroversial chit chat to tide us over ...

--- jd <wescac at gmail.com> wrote:

> To be honest, when I made my comment I thought that
> Jackson was in his
> late teens and starting college.  I've never really
> looked into it - I
> drew the assumption from the claim that he had a
> facebook page, which
> used to be only for college students, but I guess
> they're allowing
> high schoolers on now too.  So I was coming more
> from a point where
> the photo is pretty innocuous in and of itself (it's
> just them and
> their band) but I guess I was way off as far as his
> age went, and that
> photo is more recent than I believed.  It's still a
> very innocent
> photograph, and Pynchon Jr. can certainly choose
> whether to put his
> own self out more than his dad does.
> 
> The fact remains that there isn't anything to gain
> in regards to
> Pynchon's writings from anything his son might do,
> has done, will do,
> whatever.  I think it might be best if we simply do
> not involve
> ourselves in anything relating to his family...  I
> mean, Pynchon
> paying $50 to start a pie fight, or the fact that he
> carried a pig
> around, OK, maybe a bit of insight as to what kind
> of author he is.
> The fact that his kid plays keyboard, means nothing
> to us in relation
> to any of the writing, and by looking into it in any
> degree whacks a
> little too close to the papprazzi following Brittany
> Speares around
> trying to get photos of her kid.  Do you get what
> I'm saying?  It
> would be kind of like if someone I never met and who
> lived in another
> state dropped me an email saying that they saw my
> girlfriend the other
> day...  even if he meant it respectfully and with
> good intention it's
> still like... wtf... why are you looking at my
> girlfriend, how do you
> know me or her... etc.
> 
> So Dave, basically, I can see why you might be
> motivated to do
> something like that, and it's not like I think
> you're going to go hide
> in their bushes or something, but it's one of those
> things that might
> just be better left untouched with a ten foot pole. 
> Y'know?  I think
> we should have just disregarded that first bit about
> his kid being on
> the facebook and let it drop entirely and not so
> much as run a google
> search.  As a disclaimer I'm not trying to chastize
> anyone here or
> anything, just trying to explain why it should just
> be dropped and we
> should go back to postulating intricacies of
> Gravity's Rainbow, etc.
> 
> 


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