Einstein Letter

[Ian Livingston]

Bull's Eye

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 1:58 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> ATD, p. 936:
>
> "If this was a map, it was like none Cyprian had ever seen.  Instead of
> place-names there were hundreds of what looked like short messages.
>  Everything reproduced in just one color, violet ..."
>
> Laura
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Henry <scuffling at gmail.com>
> >Sent: May 15, 2008 10:33 AM
> >To: 'Pynchon Liste' <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> >Subject: RE: Einstein Letter
> >
> >Yes, you're right Laura, I was a little offensive there. Thanks. I value
> your thoughts on this, but for better or for worse, a college-boy wouldn't
> use that color unless he was making a point as gay or feminine, and so,
> perhaps, neither should a woman.  Certainly none of the Traverse boys would,
> but I do believe that Yashmeen would use it carefully, i.e. in letters to
> other girls or to a lover.  In the not so distant past, I was the recipient
> of lavender-inked letters: I was a young man, and all the purple-prose was
> from young women.  Those letters were earnest, but no more appropriate for
> public discourse than my dysgraphic handwriting would be in any color.
> >
> >
> >
> >To be aware of cultural norms is no more sexist than recognizing
> potch-tanses as curious, and perhaps even joking a little about them, would
> be ethnocentric/jingoistic, there being little, if any implication of
> superiority.  College boys simply didn't have those
> couple-on-the-beach-watching-the-sunset "Happiness is" posters in their
> rooms, and the girls didn't have the inch of dirt on the floor.
> >
> >
> >
> >Or have things changed to such an unimaginable (by me, at least) extent?
> >
> >HENRY MU
> >
> >http://www.urdomain.us/scuffling.htm
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Laura
> >
> >
> >
> >Your point would be better made without the sexist innuendo.
> >
> >
> >
> >Laura
> >
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >
> >>From: Henry
> >
> >
> >
> ><major snip by Laura>
> >
> >
> >
> >>A-and next time, how about losing the college-girl plump lavender font?
> >
> ><snip>
> >
> >>======================================
> >
> >>From: Ivana
> >
> >>
> >
> >Dear Albert,
> >
> ><major snip by Henry>
> >
> >
> >
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