JFK

[Carvill, John]

Whether the subjects Laura mentions have indeed been picked clean or not, certainly they are 'in the text'. But that doesn't mean Pynchon is rubbing our noses in them.

Pynchon sure did warn us 'fair and square' about asking the wrong questions; he just didn't spell out how to be certain what the 'wrong' questions are.

One of my all-time favorite Bogart (as Sam Spade) lines:

"It's not always easy to know what to do."




-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf Of Monte Davis
Sent: 24 November 2009 11:29
To: kelber at mindspring.com; pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: RE: JFK

Laura Kelber sez:

> The '60s, MKULTRA, Nixon, the CIA, Vietnam, et al have pretty much been picked clean....

Obviously, to some, they're the gifts that keep on giving.

To me, these preoccupations --  more precisely, the ascription of these preoccupations to Pynchon, who warned us fair and square about asking the wrong questions -- make the P-list feel more like the White Visitation or T.W.I.T. every day.

But then, as either a conscious tool or an oblivious dupe of THEM ('cause everybody must be one or the other), I *would* say that, wouldn't I?

-Monte