The Ivory Dentist Dance

[Joseph Tracy]

On Sep 25, 2009, at 9:28 PM, alice wellintown wrote:

> At the risk of sounding like Monroe's broken record; I repeat myself:
> paranoia is the exact antithesis of Love in a world where opposites
> are unclear and the risk of associating with anything on any side is
> great.

Well I don't understand  what expression of paranoia is under attack   
but In my experience there's paranoia,  there's risk assessment, and  
there's curiouser and curiouser. A detective who did not question  
motives, follow connections and look for patterns and hidden  
information would be in the wrong job. And every person who wants to  
understand the world will have to take up some private detective work.
>
> Pynchon doesn't write about the CIA; he mocks those who waste their
> time with conspiracy.
That's just dumb. Pynchon explicitly includes the CIA  a player and  
the corrupting interactions of  so called intelligence operations as  
a topic in IV. And he frequents the  topic of conspiracy  and  
paranoia. It seems to me that you are the one who is doing the mocking
>
> LOVE is not ALL You need, but Love is the flower.
> Plant it.
As an avid gardener I recommend sticking with seeds when it comes to  
planting time. Flowers are basically the plant's reproductive organ  
containing male and female parts, which when pollinated produces the  
fruit body with the baby plants we call seeds.
>
> Let it grow!


Yes. Let a thousand flowers bloom. And cross pollinate. And make  
seeds.  And these be sown and watered to grow again with slight  
genetic variations resulting from the pollination.