the Merle center

Bled Welder bledwelder at hotmail.com
Tue Feb 28 23:24:07 CST 2012


Has any clinically paranoid Pynchonite ever attempted to decode GR MD AtD, or the three of them onto a unitary whole, find out what is actually being communicated?  Their work may be worth having a look at...

 

> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: the Merle center
> From: bandwraith at aol.com
> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 23:34:00 -0500
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> Merle is an American tinker. He creates by
> bricolage. He's like Edison but less malign, and
> on a much smaller scale. He forms a counter-
> weight to the inspired but somewhat misguided
> romaticism of Tesla. Merle befriends ball
> lightening and shares time and space with it.
> Tesla wants to rule the heavens, and is easily
> co-opted.
> 
> Merle lives a decentralized existence, off the grid.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
> To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Tue, Feb 28, 2012 8:42 pm
> Subject: Re: the Merle center
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> In sum, Merle is the person in the novel whom I would most like to be.
> (which is yet another stipulation for moral center that seems relevant
>  To borrow from George Clinton (a more pleasant prospect), he's an
> Atomic Dog, he gets up for the downstroke, he gets on the good foot...
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