Can you NOT think of the ending of GR?

[Alex Colter]

http://www.pe.com/local-news/breaking-news-headlines/20120721-riverside-james-holmes-college-life-at-ucr-a-closed-book.ece

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2012/07/20/movie-shooting-suspect-educated-advanced-sciences/

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Alex Colter <recoignishon at gmail.com> wrote:

> Apparently Holmes was accepted into the "cream of the crop" summer boot
> camp run by Miramar college for writing, while still in high school a
> computer program that illustrates "temporary perceptions of causality and
> programmed a flicker fusion utility". Flicker fusion being a lively Topic
> of interest for those Devotees of Xi Nao (brainwashing).
> It also seems, and this has been a lively topic for the popular Paranoids,
> that he took part in research programs while at Salk that were directly
> funded by DARPA...?
>
> Certainly a few smoking guns here. but one would do well to not trust
> everything the internet tells us.
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> I wasn't criticizing parents! I was curious to know if the movie was
>> seriously violent - that's it.  What kind of movie would a very intelligent
>> bizerko pull out the guns for?  I was thinking he was going for audience
>> size, not the violence of the film.
>>
>> Bek
>>
>> On Jul 24, 2012, at 5:45 PM, "Erik T. Burns" <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >What sort of parent brings these children to midnight movies of any sort?
>>
>> Y'know, under most circumstances I would agree with this sentiment. But
>> the issue here is not the "bad parenting" of the audience, it's the fuckwit
>> with the guns. The killer, not his victims.
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:23 PM, <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I don't think this appalling fact has much to do with the quality of the
>>> movie.  What sort of parent brings these children to midnight movies of any
>>> sort?
>>>
>>> Has anyone here seen the movie? There were 6-year olds and younger there
>>> and nobody has criticized that (to my knowledge).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
>>> To: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
>>> Cc: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>> Sent: Tue, Jul 24, 2012 6:21 pm
>>> Subject: Re: Can you NOT think of the ending of GR?
>>>
>>>  Has anyone here seen the movie? There were 6-year olds and younger
>>> there and nobody has criticized that (to my knowledge).
>>>
>>>  Bekah
>>>
>>> http://beckylindroos.wordpress.com/
>>>
>>> On Jul 24, 2012, at 3:44 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>   On 7/24/2012 4:01 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
>>>
>>>  "This willing dissociation of response from violent spectacle has a
>>> downside, as many people have said: we become inured to actual
>>> violence when it excites us on; we forget that that there’s pain and
>>> death, we become connoisseurs of spectacle
>>>
>>>
>>> Can there be "willing dissociation of response from violent spectacle"
>>> if the spectacle isn't seriously violent in the first place.  Is Batman
>>> movie "violence" even violent enough to dissociate from?
>>>
>>> I'm asking for information.  Way too old to judge for myself.
>>>
>>> P
>>>
>>>
>>>  . This kind of
>>> connoisseurship showed up in the response to 9/11, which many people,
>>> with obvious relish as well as awe, said resembled a movie, a remark
>>> that left anyone with half a brain feeling queasy, if not furious." —
>>> David Denby, The New Yorker
>>>
>>> Many said it without any relish. & Pynchon has half-a-brain and
>>> he was furious (in GR).......
>>>
>>> He (and many others) go there:  "Blame the movie, not the guns/killer."
>>>
>>> David Morris
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 12:50 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Ban Batman, not guns!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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