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[Madeleine Maudlin]

Actually I may be able to turn that into an interesting question.  Not, do
you think Pynchon is a full-blooded die-hard killer democrat?  But rather,
along the lines of my (killer) intuition that smart writers who know stuff
are not specifik-god believers, would you agree that there might be
something inherently un-democratic about a higher creative human
intelligence that gives them to more, consolidations of certain types of,
say, power?  No I didn't say that good.  But I wonder, something that turns
them off from the notion that just any and *all *ignorant talentless
brainless people should vote equally for who runs the nation, people who
after voting might want a medal?

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Madeleine Maudlin <
madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com> wrote:

> How about the medaling tradition?  Has it always been so democratic?  So
> flat, so nihilist?
>
> Look at the scorecard now.  China 24, USA 23.  Please!
>
> Count em with gold as 3, silver as 2, bronze as 1.
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 1:39 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> "Tradition" isn't a good word choice here.  Maybe style or method, as
>> in "everything including the kitchen sink."
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Alex Colter <recoignishon at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > If by Pynchon Tradition you mean the Tradition Pynchon constantly
>> satirizes then I would agree...?
>> >
>> > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> The Opening Ceremony for the Olympics was deeply in the Pynchon
>> tradition.
>> >
>> >
>>
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