Murdered By Capitalism - TRP Support Notice

[Dave Monroe]

On 3/19/07, Joseph T <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>
> Thank God somebody is finally about to administer some proper intellectual
> remonstration  to robinlandseadel ...

"Thank God" and "proper intellectual remonstration" in the same sentence?

> 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.

Huh?  This sarcastic, or no?

>  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.

On the other hand, this is just plain uncalled for ...

> 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 ?

Again, IS this sarcastic?  Or is 'zat you, Robt.?