ATD and ghosts/thanatoids
Ian Livingston
igrlivingston at gmail.com
Tue Mar 9 09:49:59 CST 2010
> I don't think Pynchon is literal about karma, nor about ghosts, nor
> any other fantastic phenomena in any of his novels, so I don't think
> they show him losing his fire. But the writing in general?...
>
A problem often noted in Westerns: when you have the reputation of
being the best, everybody's lookin' for signs you might be slowin'
down. Now, why is that?
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 7:46 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, I think of it more like wishful thinking: believing in some
> form of inherent justice. Vengeance is only one aspect of justice.
> Reward is another.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 1:24 AM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>I've always felt the idea of karma was just a way of projecting your own revenge instincts onto the universe at large.
>
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"liber enim librum aperit."
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