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[Madeleine Maudlin]

Wait wait wait hold on, dammit, stop.  Put yer pants back on.  I didn't
mean "smart writers", I meant "good writers".

Geez Madeleine get it together these people are going to start wondering
about you....

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Madeleine Maudlin <
madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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