IVing IV, a touching touch

[Michael Bailey]

alice wellintown  wrote:

> Polonius speaks tenderly to his children, but he doesn't trust them. A
> rotten Denmark is rotten to the heart and core. Penny, a flat land
> lady just sold his ass to the feds and she got nothing for doing it.
>

aha, but she knew he could handle it...

> She's still down at the bottom of the treehouse, where the only privy
> she is privy to is what the boyz piss down upon her. But she keeps on
> trying to get a look inside that treehouse, to climb its rope ladder,

much as I agree on some of this stuff, feminism-wise, I don't agree that
there is anything "up there in the [male chauvinist] treehouse" worth
of a woman aspiring to or
emulating or being pissed to be left out of...

that's not acceptance of the status quo, just flat disbelief in the importance
or goodness, even for insiders, of lopsided (poorly engineered.
dysfunctional) power structures...
an attitude which I think Pynchon encourages...frickin' pyramid
schemes every one 'a' them, if ya think about it...

's also why I go along with millions - and see signs that Pynchon does
too - that
supporting an organized state where the formerly oppressed will take
the positions of
oppressor is really not worth the struggle...

I think that is what the Events of 1968 were about - disdaining
that form of revolution where you think you will stop when your group
is on top...
but things just keep turning, Trotsky mows down the anarchists at Kronstad,
America land of the free has the fugitive slave act, Mao tse Tung gave
thousands of women
venereal disease, Napoleon follows the French Revolution by making
himself emperor

is like one of those mini-golf holes where you try to hit the ball
into a recessed area
atop a knoll, but the momentum always carries it up and over, back
down again...Idiot's Delight
they called it...


-- 
- "The doctor said give him jug band music; it seems to make him feel
just fine!"