threatdown

[Charles Albert]

*SCISSORFIGHT!*

love,
cfa

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Ray Easton <kraimie at gmail.com> wrote:

> :-)
>
>
> On 6/14/12, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net> wrote:
> > 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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