Gravity's Rainbow in depth on Studio 360

[David Morris]

I think this is Pynchon's source of this concept of a "We-System."

>Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 13:19:43 -0400
>From: Terrance <Lycidas@[omitted]>
>To: David Morris <fqmorris@[omitted]>
>Subject: Re: "Creative" paranoia
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> >  "Creative paranoia means developing at least as thorough a We-system as a They-system--" GR.638
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> Salvidor Dali was a proponent of Creative Paranoia.  He actively pursued a method of vision, which he called "systematized error," in which he grabbed hold of "wrong" associations and built upon them, putting himself in the driver's seat of "reality."
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> >From  http://cair.kaist.ac.kr/wm/paint/auth/dali/life/
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> "He took over the Surrealist theory of automatism but transformed it into a more positive method which he named `critical paranoia'. According to this theory one should cultivate genuine delusion as in clinical paranoia while remaining residually aware at the back of one's mind that the control of the reason and will has been deliberately suspended. He claimed that this method should be used not only in artistic and poetical creation but also in the affairs of daily life."