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[Joseph T]

On Mar 19, 2007, at 2:19 AM, Joseph T wrote:

> Thank God somebody is finally about to administer some proper  
> intellectual remonstration  to robinlandseadel, especially after  
> that clever, but boringly obvious comparison of the governer of  
> Jeshimon to the young prince George the 2nd.
>
> Thankfully Pynchon's political leanings are not to be taken at face  
> value through the all too obvious route of trying to understand the  
> writer's antipathies through the villains that populate his novels.  
> Just because he composes elaborately accurate pictures of mass  
> killers, Nazi style scientific "experimenters",  slavers, reaganaut  
> prison camp imagineers and rapine industrialists doesn't mean that  
> his real intention is to question their natural and obvious  
> legitimacy. After all these are not the kind of things that really  
> matter to the subtle literary purposes of the Thomas Pynchon.  I  
> mean we're talkin triple flipean and mano a mano, man oh Manipippean.
>
>  In other words Robin, if you will just shut up and listen to some  
> more adult voices you might just learn a thing or 2.
>
> Also  a quick perusal of the p-list archives will reveal that if it  
> isn't Pynchon related, or favorite scifi movie,  or cool cartoon  
> related , or lists of what people are reading related it just isn't  
> welcome here. I mean this real -world politics shit. What does that  
> have to do with the writings of Thomas Pynchon ?
>
> On Mar 18, 2007, at 2:38 PM, robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:

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