IVIV family

[Mark Kohut]

I'm liking this read a lot......I think a strong strain of independence--in thinking, in "not following leaders; feeding parking meters [maybe]"; in finding and living out one's own psychological life ala Jung, others is there in his work......

so, this dovetails....

--- On Fri, 12/11/09, Doug Millison <DOUGMILLISON at COMCAST.NET> wrote:

> From: Doug Millison <DOUGMILLISON at COMCAST.NET>
> Subject: Re: IVIV family
> To: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>, "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Friday, December 11, 2009, 1:12 PM
> Maybe it's "addiction" itself that's
> the problem? Instead of normal, healthy relationships with
> other people and things, we sometimes develop addictions
> instead.  Recall how Pynchon's work goes after
> "pornography", described as the phony and inauthentic
> representations of life that we humans sometimes prefer over
> the real thing. The perfect sunset on the postcard instead
> of life on the real Gordita Beach, for example.
> 
> > 
> > Mark the K;
> 
> > …without further thought I guess I see the GF as our
> addiction to THINGS that destroy us, whatever that
> means......
> 
>