porn and Pynchon with some random shit

[Henry M]

IMO, porn is when you read about or look at pictures of something that
you want but have no expectation of having.  Food porn, sex porn,
electronics porn, house and garden porn, vacation portion...

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Henry Mu
http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:33 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> I've been talking about the uses of"pornography" with a mildly negative
> tone, but I think the topic is complicated. Dictionaries talk about it as
> material depicting sex or the body in a way  intended to stimulate erotic
> rather than aesthetic or emotional response.  To me this could describe some
> subtle and delightful art . Anyway, sexuality is fully worthy of artistic
> interest.   The erotic becomes pornography  when words like prurient,
> commercial, exploitive, boring, and  empty all describe the material.  I
> think the word can be applied to violence or propaganda  or TV or many other
> things with equal precision. Some truths that the arts explore  are pretty
> crude;  maybe drawing any lines is silly, but  I think Pynchon is probing at
> where the lines might be and why, and  he's  doing so in ways that invite
> some serious consideration while we enjoy the ride in all its crude joking
> transgressiveness.  Isn't sex in fiction always more interesting when you
> care about one or both of the characters involved?
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> Is Doc Sportello kinda like Stencil and Benny united in a single dude?
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> Apparently some noble  US servicemen are defending the homeland by by
> risking life and limb to kill Afghan alligators and cut off their , er ,
> fingers and steal their hashish.
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> Published on Thursday, September 9, 2010 by The Guardian/UK
> US Soldiers 'Killed Afghan Civilians for Sport and Collected Fingers as
> Trophies'
> Soldiers face charges over secret 'kill team' which allegedly murdered at
> random and collected fingers as trophies of war
> by Chris McGreal
> Twelve American soldiers face charges over a secret "kill team" that
> allegedly blew up and shot Afghan civilians at random and collected their
> fingers as trophies.   Five of the soldiers are charged with murdering three
> Afghan men who were allegedly killed for sport in separate attacks this
> year. Seven others are accused of covering up the killings and assaulting a
> recruit who exposed the murders when he reported other abuses, including
> members of the unit smoking hashish stolen from civilians.
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>           In one of the most serious accusations of war crimes to emerge
> from the Afghan conflict, the killings are alleged to have been carried out
> by members of a Stryker infantry brigade based in Kandahar province in
> southern Afghanistan.
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> "Through their extraordinary service they have written their own chapters in
> the American story, and by any measure have earned their place among the
> greatest of generations."    Barack Obama,  largest recipient of BP campaign
> money,  noble speechmaker,  Gold man sex pimp, potus, proud defender of the
> white house puppy, a sweet dog currently under dire threat from the Taliban,
> who would like nothing better than to potty train him on the holy bible.
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>  More fun porn yet to come!
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