got any gum chum

[rich]

cf ending of Pynchon's essay on Orwell

we wish to protect the innocent from the V's and Vonds of the world
but are we as grown-ups just as innocent still believing that Prarie's
innocence or Orwell's son can be protected ad infinitum from the sad
wisdom if you wanna call it that, that the world brings us all

maybe being a grown-up only means a rough acceptance of that irrefutable sadness

sorry, too many 'ludes today

rich

On 7/29/09, Campbel Morgan <campbelmorgan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I mention the kids in scooby-doo and TSI because, it seems to me that
> children are the ones P celebrates in his works. His use of Blake in
> AGTD did not surprize me and, although it's Blake's black hammers and
> burning furnace of human hearts worked to soot that he focuses on,
> because the work is about industrial workers, we can hear the weep
> weep weep of the chimney boys black and white sold by the balckening
> churches of industry.
>
> By the time a kid is Prairie's age or Bareftone age or whatever, the
> justice they seek, the innocense they speak of without knowing it, how
> they save eachother with majick, is lost and no one is saved. It's a
> dark vision but for that song of innocense.
>
> so if all do their duty they need not fear harm ....
>