Can you NOT think of the ending of GR?

[Ian Livingston]

After having seen myself and a number of others wounded pretty badly over
the course of a few years, I am less queasy about blood and pain than I
once was. Movie blood, whether tomato juice or chocolate syrup, never
bothered me at all.

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> A high school friend has been quoted as saying he, suspect. always
> identified with the bad guys in superhero movies. Weird, I think
> the friend said...
>
> I am a vile man. I am a spiteful man----Notes from Underground.....
>
>   *From:* Alex Colter <recoignishon at gmail.com>
> *To:* Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
> *Cc:* Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com>; "malignd at aol.com" <malignd at aol.com>;
> "pynchon-l at waste.org" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 24, 2012 8:56 PM
>
> *Subject:* Re: Can you NOT think of the ending of GR?
>
> 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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-- 
"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all creeds
the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in
reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness
groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest
urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
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