Sincerity

[Paul Mackin]

On 8/10/2012 4:20 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> Thanks, Paul!
> I think I side here:
> " means that the transformations rued by Marcuse, Trilling and the 
> others have now unfolded so completely they’re no longer even visible 
> to us."
> Yet I still want to believe in it.

We want as much of it as possible in our lives and those of our 
children, but in fiction truth works best.

P
>
> *From:* Phillip Greenlief <pgsaxo at pacbell.net>
> *To:* Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
> *Cc:* pynchon-l at waste.org
> *Sent:* Friday, August 10, 2012 3:53 PM
> *Subject:* Re: Sincerity
>
> my feelings exactly.
>
> sent from phillip's iPhone
>
> On Aug 10, 2012, at 12:26 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net 
> <mailto:mackin.paul at verizon.net>> wrote:
>
> Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, that deep-down need to mean 
> two things at once, to be in two places at once, not to be there for 
> the catastrophe of a fixed meaning.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/books/review/sincerity-by-r-jay-magill-jr.html?ref=books
>
>

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