threatdown

[Monte Davis]

Surely there are enough self-absorbed word-salading Dada wannabes in the world that that they don’t have to double up. Maybe rising sea levels have forced the evacuation of 4chan and alt.religion.kibology. Or maybe we’re just very, very lucky. 

 

From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf Of kelber at mindspring.com
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 3:58 PM
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: threatdown

 

If Madeleine says that (s)he is not Madeleine, then (s)he must be Iris.  Or Alice.  Or Terrence.  Or all of them.

 

Laura

-----Original Message----- 
From: Madeleine Maudlin 
Sent: Jun 14, 2012 3:53 PM 
To: David Morris 
Cc: Iris Sirius , P-list 
Subject: Re: threatdown 

It would be pathologickly insane to attempt to deceive literature experts by acting like two different characters.  Enki himself could not do so, even acting like Enlil.

 

This is my only proof that obviously I am not Madeleine: I am not pathologickly insane.  Although her name does look fake.

 

But you have reminded me of something that would be appropriate if your icky sockpuppet insinuation were true:

 

"Your Honor, you are too clever for us naughty people."

 

If me and Madeleine sound alike to you, well, sexist.

 

 

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 2:37 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

You two sure do sound like a pair of sock-puppets, one in each hand of
the same person.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sockpuppet_(Internet)

A sockpuppet is an online identity used for purposes of deception. The
term—a reference to the manipulation of a simple hand puppet made from
a sock—originally referred to a false identity assumed by a member of
an internet community who spoke to, or about himself while pretending
to be another person.[1] The term now includes other uses of
misleading online identities, such as those created to praise, defend
or support a third party or organization.[2] A significant difference
between the use of a pseudonym[3] and the creation of a sockpuppet is
that the sockpuppet poses as an independent third-party unaffiliated
with the puppeteer.


On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Iris Sirius <irissiriustce at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nobody's interested in playing your paranoid fantasy games, Mad.  They're
> too paranoid.  93% of the eight people on here know that nine eleven was an
> inside job, but the thing is, 911 worked, it made everybody afraid to be
> associated with evildoers, so you can't talk about evildoing even in a
> negative context, because we literary people no all about the evil problems
> contexts can cause.
>
> What more obvious place to seek evildoers than a Pynchon Club?  Of course
> we're being watched, observed, right?  We can't discuss where the Next Big
> Threat will be etc., because that will autiomatically raise suspicions.  Why
> are we discussing evildoing?  Hmm?  Even though everybody with half a brain
> knows that certain societies need periodic Big Threats to sustain
> themselves.  And when was the last one in the Land of the FreedomLovers?
>
> A good Chomsky exercise in totalitarian-shutdown would be to start an
> organization that studied where when and how would be the next big one, and
> then start investigating the who.  Accordingly to Noam, we'd all be fine
> until somebody started paying attention to us.  And the thing is, all eight
> people on this list believes there's a lot more than eight people on this
> list watching, listening, sniffing around, paying attention to the drunken
> rants of longing souls.
>
> I was going to end with Zarathustra, but I see all that is available is the
> Common translation, nevermind.  On Redemption, was it, something about a
> giant ear, Zarathustra wishing into it like some poor pining Mason for his
> Love?
>
> What is that about conscience, cruelty turned inward...?  Have our rulers no
> conscience?  No wait, no that's, that's way too ironic...
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Madeleine Maudlin
> <madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone have an idea when where and how the Next Big Threat to
>> freedomlovers is. going. to. be. and who will freedomlovers attack and
>> invade.in.response.to.?
>>
>> For example, London, 2012, summer olympics, computer virus, Tibet.
>>
>> Aren't there websites where you can make those bets, what are some?
>>
>>
>

 

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