C of L 49: "That's how it is..most of the time."

[Robin Landseadel]

On Jul 16, 2009, at 5:52 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> I would argue that Pynchon, through Hilarious, savages those who  
> would trivialize the Holocaust.....he's anti-"Hogan's Heroes"....

As far as I can tell, Hilarius savages a couple-two-three other things  
as well like psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic drug treatments.

	We've Had A Hundred Years of Psychotherapy And The World's
	Getting Worse, James Hillman and Michael Ventura:

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	Pynchon writes: This provocative, dangerous, and high-spirited
	conversation sounds like one that many of us have been
	holding with ourselves, more and less silently, as times have
	grown ever darker. Finally somebody has begun to talk out loud
	about what must change, and what must be left behind, if we
	are to navigate the perilous turn of this millennium and survive.
	For bravely lighting up these first beacons in the night, Ventura
	and Hillman deserve our thanks as well as our closest attention.

http://www.themodernword.com/Pynchon/pynchon_essays_blurbs.html

> --- On Wed, 7/15/09, Rob Jackson wrote:
>
>> "They" 'R' "Us" - Pynchon's constant theme.

Very reminiscent of the Firesign Theater's "Well, who am us, anyway,?"  
followed by a list of names that includes "and me."

Frenesi clearly comes to mind. The simple lesson that hormones can &  
do trump thought 'n political consciousness—in particular during the  
high water-mark of sex 'n drugs 'n Rock 'n Roll—gets lost in the  
shuffle of po-mo & conspiratorial talking points by a whole lot of  
folks that think they're really smart 'n cute and have the pigskin 'n  
tenure to prove it. The cardboard cut-out villains—well of course  
they're evil, what do you think they're doing in this book anyway?  
It's the ones who you KNEW were your good buddies & BF's that'll  
really screw ya over. Leastaways in OBA's universe. And No-one is more  
capable of screwing one over than one's self. Ya might call it an  
inherent vice.