TR Gaddis tears into Dale Carnegie Pt 2 ch 1

[Erik T. Burns]

"The New York Telephone Company made a detailed study of
telephone conversations to find out which word is the most
frequently used. You have guessed it: it is the personal pronoun "I."
"I." I." It was used 3,900 times in 500 telephone conversations. "I."
"I." "I." "I." When you see a group photograph that you are in,
whose picture do you look for first?"

http://erudition.mohit.tripod.com/_Influence_People.pdf

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:40 PM, cfabel <cfabel at sfasu.edu> wrote:
> Perhaps stopped seeking "Self" alone, as tough self were something by
> itself?
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> C. F. Abel
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
> Of Mark Kohut
> Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 2:37 PM
> To: David Payne; Paul Mackin; Michael Bailey; Pynchon-l
> Subject: Re: TR Gaddis tears into Dale Carnegie Pt 2 ch 1
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> Why does Gaddis cap "Self"?....must play into whatever is/are the
> meaning(s)...???
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: David Payne <dpayne1912 at hotmail.com>
> To: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>; Michael Bailey
> <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>; Pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Thu, June 2, 2011 3:18:47 PM
> Subject: RE: TR Gaddis tears into Dale Carnegie Pt 2 ch 1
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> Maybe I read it wrong or am forgetting the context, but I recall taking this
> as
> a comment on the irony of mass-marketed means toward individualization.
>
> Like reading a best seller for guidance on how to become a rising star at
> work,
> or wearing customized cufflinks, because you know my cufflinks are different
>
> than yours, there're so totally me.
>
> A forged self.
>
> But I think that there's also something going on here about how trying to be
>
> original, to create new things, is a fool's game, so I donno...
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>> On 6/2/2011 12:39 PM, Michael Bailey wrote:
>> >> What I don't quite get is the meaning of the ". . . . the Self which
> had
>> >> ceased to exist the day they stopped seeking it alone."
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