Alice's Restaurant (WAS Re: Back to AtD. which contains everything, pp 965-969)

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"And I went up there, I said, "Shrink, I want to kill.  I mean, I 
wanna, I
wanna kill.  Kill.  I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and
guts and veins in my teeth.  Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill,
KILL, KILL."  And I started jumpin up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL," 
and
he started jumpin up and down with me and we was both jumping up and 
down
yelling, "KILL, KILL."  And the sargent came over, pinned a medal on me,
sent me down the hall, said, "You're our boy." "

It's a male disease...


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tue, Dec 25, 2012 6:29 pm
Subject: Back to AtD. which contains everything, pp 965-969



News you may know:
A gunman set his house on fire near Webster, NY, and shot the 
firefighters who responded with his
automatic,semi-automatic?,- the notorious Bushmaster AK--15. You may 
have read he left a note which said
he was getting ready to do "what I do best, kill people."
 
In this section of AtD, when the war is building, is in the air, 
ground and music, on p.965 we read:
"Among the Mauser on Mauser, something new on earth. Machine guns, the 
future of warfare."
 
Then we read shortly later, p.969, They had entered "a theatre of 
war" and "Reef entered the domain of five hundred rounds per 
minute"...."and whoever they'd been, they didn't seem to be there 
anymore".
 
Yashmeen murmured as if to Ljubica:
"What he does best, of course."