IV: BB

[Mark Kohut]

No to Robotboy here, but it is the kind of thing TRP would (still) watch? 

I think the Churchill quote is, perhaps, the most key one regarding key meanings of IV. "unequal sharing of blessings" is surely part of what the straight world inhabits----when giving it away, getting it, living in it free was the hippie world....

--- On Sun, 9/13/09, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com>
> Subject: IV: BB
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Sunday, September 13, 2009, 5:47 PM
> Foax:
> 
> so did anyone see  this?:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_characters_in_Robotboy#Bjorn_Bjornson
> 
> (have never seen RocketBoy, so do not know if there are
> Kute
> Korrespondences with Raketenmensch &c.)
> 
> or maybe BB is a dog:
> http://www.newfoundlanddog-database.net/en/det.php?num=0000150432
> 
> o-or what if BB = Bugs Bunny? That would 'splain his smarts
> & his
> pattern, and would underline (What's Up) Doc's (?) altitude
> AND
> attitude.
> 
> finally, one last thought (forgive me, I have come through
> thousands
> of plist messages after going offline while waiting for and
> then
> reading _IV_ and then sitting down to think about it a
> bit.):
> 
> "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of
> blessings;
> the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of
> miseries."
>   --  Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
> 
> etb
> 
>