IVIV amethyst is resilient. There is too much kindness in the room all of a sudden.

[rich]

On 9/8/09, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> Joseph Tracy wrote:
>> Why should the "idea" of this family have come first? Maybe the texture,
>> the
>> experience the kindness of a real family came first. Maybe this is based
>> on
>> someone real from Pynchon's life. Not the specific narrative arrangement
>> but
>> a family that was fucked up on heroin and found a new start. I think this
>> story is  a real part of the world and sometimes people who have hit some
>> kind of bottom will hang onto and appreciate love.
>
> well said.
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that's all well and good and in reality who the heck would argue
different. But it makes for lousy fiction

rich
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