IVing IV, a touching touch

[Mark Kohut]

frickin' pyramid
schemes every one 'a' them, if ya think about it...

Like that post, esp the above

--- On Wed, 12/2/09, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: IVing IV, a touching touch
> To: "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 5:31 AM
> 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!"
>