44 Here Comes Coy to Save the Motherland

[Joseph Tracy]

Methinks the lady doth protest too much.

If this is so distastefully painful you seem to be a glutton for  
punishment.

On Oct 20, 2009, at 6:27 AM, alice wellintown wrote:

> Michael Bailey>
>> Further, the gradual, not-at-all-pain-free, and obviously incomplete
>> rapprochement between human-qua-human ("vogelfrei" aka Zoyd)  
>> coming to grips
>> with government, and in their interactions with government's  
>> minions reminding
>> them cleverly, perseverantly and poignantly of their own humanity is
>> what I tend to see - but it is a figure-ground thing and the  
>> dystopia is
>> equally prominent...it's just not the savory part...
>
> If I want a savory dish of characters cut close to the bone, pricking
> and pleasing the poignant buds of palate sweet, sour, salty, pungent,
> I will not spend a penny at Pynchon's broom closet kitchen. Mine is a
> spoiled appetite, one that savors with senses five or six and would
> sooner eat ideas from  dustbins swept by historian-revisionist brooms
> than a spinner of yarns less he fill my ears to a swollen satisfaction
> with beautiful words. This IV is meat I tire of cutting into with
> sharpened blade only to break a tooth on its bones.