Pynchon world-paranoia (?)

Tue Mar 13 01:28:16 CDT 2012

And so that we may all make joyous conscious contact with our necessary friends around this wonderful globe.
Let us share the now revealed meaning of our wondrous dreams of old dear friends we have had in this last week.
Let's share this now revealing meaning of our most wondrous dreams of old lost dear friends now found.
Let us be fearless and share the meaning of these very special and wondrous dreams of ever deeping depth of becoming awareness from within themselves.
From: bledwelder at hotmail.com
To: michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com; pynchon-l at waste.org; sweatyk at gmail.com
Subject: RE: Pynchon world-paranoia (?)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:19:01 -0500

For amusement perhaps share my ever moment of amusement this with your close friends and so they might at their leisure and amusement share with other close loved and always cherished friends so that we may enrich this world with our everlasting bemusement.
All my becoming cherished friends of this Pynchon list all of you as well as those I am in direct awareness of with great fondness all as I am certain it is a feeling shared with the kindest regard.
And do remind me to tell you of a most remarkable and enchanting and wondrous curious being who with great joy which was a shred warm and glad regard and acknowledgement our differences in the comparative awesomeness of our shoes and who told me she was to catch later this day or last now a plane to a desert southwest American land for five months and when she returns all her friends at this Starbucks which is all of us who go there whether we are in great sorrow or great joy and say a warm and grand hello.  Again.
And to share with you the most remarkable meaning I now see in the wondrous dreams I have had of the last week involving so mentioned no longer conscious old dear friends.
For all our amusement and sorrowful returning bemusement.
From: bledwelder at hotmail.com
To: michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com; pynchon-l at waste.org; sweatyk at gmail.com
Subject: RE: Pynchon world-paranoia (?)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:07:17 -0500

For my amusement while I am here.  And hydrating!  And the pressures are staying within expected health boundries!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Byron
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Nabokov
I wanted to link Russell and Wittgenstein and my brother (remind me of my brother's wonderful emotionally supercharged off-the-cuff mathematical response to McKenna's analysis of the IChing) and Chomsky all of whom I have always regarded with great fondness (and perhaps with joyful curiosity remind me someday to recall my dreams of the last week of some of my good old friends who I never think of in consciousness to his moment of fondness) and
And yes I had something clever for fun to ponder here and still do now with great amusement what was it and what is it.  The genetic code of our wondrous friend and oh gosh have I mentioned to you my very curious thing with names you know he I mean his living body has met recent demise.
Him.  With ever great fondness.  My friend in spirit.
From: bledwelder at hotmail.com
To: michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com; pynchon-l at waste.org; sweatyk at gmail.com
Subject: RE: Pynchon world-paranoia (?)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:52:46 -0500

As well as others who are becoming now what they already were and now are.  They are now becoming more than human. 

Yes I am aware of some of many now becoming.

From: bledwelder at hotmail.com
To: michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com; pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: RE: Pynchon world-paranoia (?)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:50:42 -0500

Yes.  At last.  Fleeting perhaps.  Spirit.  It is by Absolute Spirit that information is now being shared with other human being around this planet who are becoming that which is more than human.
This is my understanding.
Friedrich Hegel may now be realized.  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel

From: bledwelder at hotmail.com
To: michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com; pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: FW: Pynchon world-paranoia (?)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:24:05 -0500

To Paul Mackin as well.  Joseph Tracy.  May be forwarded.  Brook Seven.  Hello.

From: bledwelder at hotmail.com
To: brook7 at sover.net; pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: RE: Pynchon world-paranoia (?)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:18:58 -0500

This is becoming my understanding.
This is a glad exercise in giving this world meaning.
This is a welcoming becoming of meaning.
This is my becoming to be an understanding.
This is a welcoming from without this world, and from within this world.
This is a welcoming if meaning into this world.
This is happening now.
This is your world, and this is our world.
This is meaning.

From: bledwelder at hotmail.com
To: brook7 at sover.net; pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: RE: Pynchon world-paranoia (?)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:07:00 -0500

What is happening here?  Is this meaning?
Meaningful?  This is meaning?

From: bledwelder at hotmail.com
To: brook7 at sover.net; pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: RE: Pynchon world-paranoia (?)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:02:47 -0500

Yes, metaphysical were pleasant idle afternoon musings, indeed.
Increase wattage for an evening.  It's physical.
What does this mean?  No difference between metaphysical and physical?

> Subject: Re: Pynchon world-paranoia (?)
> From: brook7 at sover.net
> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:33:09 -0400
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> 
>  P. J. McKenna, "As a noun, paranoia denotes a disorder which has been argued in and out of existence, and whose clinical features, course, boundaries, and virtually every other aspect of which is controversial.
> 
> It would help if there was a way to gather all the uses of the word in GR. Because my general feeling is that P uses it  in a non clinical way derived from drug culture . Within that group one is correct to presume the existence of a THEY that wants to arrest drug users and who sometimes pose as fellow heads, but such fears can run to extremes approaching insanity and leading to violence. But the term is often  applied by heads to any fear of an organized them who are out to control other's behavior. The confusing part is that there are  people who are secretively organized to control, deceive and dominate others.  What do you call the apprehensive mindset of someone who, for example, suspects correctly based on inconclusive evidence that  the new worker is a management spy. In other words what is the state of fearful apprehension of a conspiracy when that fear is  correct, and isn't this part of what Pynchon is describing? 
> 
> On Mar 12, 2012, at 9:02 PM, Michael Bailey wrote:
> 
> > the history of the word "paranoia" probably is worth tracing...
> > 
> > there's probably a lot more to be said than this -
> > \http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia#History
> > 
> > (of which the primary feature noted in paranoia is "systematic
> > delusion" - and here's what surprises me: "even at the present time, a
> > delusion need not be suspicious or fearful to be classified as
> > paranoid")
> > 
> > in V. we have, "Cavities in the teeth occur for good reason,
> > Eigenvalue reflected.  But even if there are several per tooth,
> > there's no conscious organization there against the life of the pulp,
> > no conspiracy.  Yet we have men like Stencil, who must go about
> > grouping the world's random caries into cabals." (162, Harper
> > Perennial Modern Classics paperback edition 2005)
> > 
> > so from a clinical view, the main thing is delusion not discomfort,
> > but the feeling that used to creep over me when in a group of
> > weed-puffers so that I was noticeably more wary, nervous, on-edge, was
> > chiefly NOT clinically paranoid, but that is how I referred to it -
> > and to that feeling when I noticed it in others...and "paranoid" came
> > to mean-- and I'm pretty sure this is what it meant in common parlance
> > to a lot of people -- excessive caution acted out in ways that were
> > often humorous
> > 
> > Like Doc and Sauncho in the grocery store buying all that stuff to
> > cover up any suspicion that one thing they were buying to use on their
> > weed might be incriminating...
> > 
> > so their delusion that they were being watched is paranoid?
> > 
> > but their worried feeling and their actions were not - they were something else?
> 

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