Fw: Inherent Vice & Jefferson & Manure

[Mark Kohut]

--- On Sat, 12/5/09, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Inherent Vice & Jefferson & Manure
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Saturday, December 5, 2009, 9:12 PM
> p. 294 "The tree of Liberty must be
> refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and
> tyrants," replied Jefferson. "It is its natural Manure."
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> In a letter: 
> "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time
> with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural
> manure." (to W. S. Smith, B.12.356) ...
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> And Doc asks what if they, patriots and tyrants, turn out
> to be the same people??  wow, what a question, eh?
> Somehow it reminds me of how TRP so fully dissed
> charisma--that disease---in GR...you? 
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> Or am I just high? 
> 
> Now write your papers on IV's perspectives on this shit...
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