ATD SPOILER p. 95

[Jasper Fidget]

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 11:06 -0800, pynchonoid wrote:
> I still fail to see anything constructive in your
> original comments, but will accept a sincere apology
> if that's what you're offering. 
> 
Ah you see!  Soon we shall be as close as Deuce and Sloat, and the
pynchonwiki shall be our Lake!

> By way of explanation, I call your observation
> "braindead" because you offered it without any kind of
> reasoned argument to support it.  If you'd like to
> make some statement about why Reef's desire to blow
> himself up in an apparent political assassination
> attempt doesn't or can't or shouldn't evoke the
> current crop of suicide bombers in Afghanistan and
> Iraq, this could turn into an interesting discussion,
> at least the potential for that remains, it's a topic
> I think is worth talking about, I find it pretty
> interesting that in 2006 Pynchon is presenting a
> picture of American terrorists with dynamite. But you
> close off that possibility with your snarky dismissal,
> and that's what makes conversation around here so
> frustrating at times, in those instances when people
> want to focus on the book and not on the list
> personalities and banter.
> 
Simply because I don't feel it's supported by the text.  The paragraph
is about Reef's recklessness with dynamite and general
self-destructiveness, not his "desire to blow himself up in an apparent
political assassination attempt".