List Problems? // brig pudding

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

I've never had to resub

I only get copies of some of my own posts, and yet people reply to some of the ones I never get - 
this happens to others too, I think

I'll complain if they raise the subscription price (-;

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It's true that in some places and times, Pynchon would have been scorned in "polite circles" (speaking of words referring to social groups, it's weird that the word "gentleman" describes the least gentle class of men) for his treatment of Brigadier Pudding in Gravity's Rainbow.

the notion of picturing a retired brigadier general with a mouthful of shit is pretty radical...and yet, somehow pleasing (especially in view of the "human waste" practiced by the organization he like Moloch surmounted)...I suppose that particular pleasure is fairly subversive.  

"What do you do with a general, when he stops being a general?" (this doesn't mean I don't still like the movie "White Christmas")