IVIV (7): He's So Heavy

[Carvill, John]

> This seems to me hopelessly muddled,  both by Pynchon and by LK.

If only LK or TRP had had you around to help them out, eh? You sure
Kekule wasn't a bit muddled as well?

> Kekule (day-)dreamed (supposedly) of the tail-biting snake and that
dream suggested to him the structure of the benzene molecule.  No one
"used" the "dream," except Kekule, and in an entirely positive way, at
least so far as he was concerned.

Can you really be as literal minded as you appear? I ask seriously, can
you?

Laura wrote:

> In these three short sentences we get:  the co-optation of mysticism,
the dream-state, the Gaia principle, the "sweet hippie thing," if you
will, by the corporate, the capitalistic, bent on profit-making above
all else.

Note that 'if you will'. Seems you, for one, won't. Fair enough. But
this...

> Certainly no co-opting of the "sweet hippie thing," some one hundred
years before there were hippies.

...well, same question as above, I guess. Are you actually so literal
minded that you cannot get the (obvious) meaning of what Laura said? Or
are you just an incurable nit-picking whiner?

I hesitated to respond, beause I've no wish to be subjected to one of
your habitual deluges of bile, but your response to Laura's intelligent
and highly relevant post is so mean-spirited that it really demands some
sort of rebuttal.

Ok, do your worst...