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[Keith]

On Jan 13, 2010, at 8:30 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

One might say--I might say---Pynchon finds ways, metaphors to point  
to the 'simply human'--what we've mostly lost.

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If he is saying that, he's idealizing a past way of being human that  
I see no evidence of.

What piece of human history exemplifies a way of being simply human  
that was/is superior to the current state of affairs?