rubrics (I like that word), wrecking crews and hugfests

[Robin Landseadel]

On Dec 1, 2009, at 2:56 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> I have been called a neo-luddite because I think I can argue a  
> fierce anti-technolgy, anti-science vision in TRPs work......

I can't help but see some elements of the eco-philosophy of Reclaiming  
in Pynchon's work.

http://www.starhawk.org/activism/activism-writings/seedball_arrest.html

> I am so far from neo-ludditism, I think, that I have to laugh.....I  
> used to quote, still do, Chekhov, Doctor Chekhov, who semi-famously  
> said, against the anti-science factions of his Russia, that  
> anesthesia has done more to reduce the suffering of humanity,  
> especially the poor, than most(all?) of the social movements/ 
> activists in history...

And I'm too plugged into the grid, too much of the time. One-time  
recording engineer, couch potato, audiophile, suckin' off PG & E's big  
tit..

> Yet, of course it is true that I read and try to explicate Pynchon  
> from my own knowledge, judgment, reading, mind and "what I have  
> gathered by coincidence". Too narcissistic and I am too stupid in my  
> supposed understanding.

Before reading Pynchon, I had little or no awareness of the history of  
the CIA, it just didn't show up on my radar. Before reading Pynchon I  
had little or no knowledge of the Tarot, it didn't register on my  
personal radar. I fell that reading Pynchon pushed me in directions I  
wouldn't have taken if I didn't spend so much time reading his work.