For Bled - On Alice et al

[Bled Welder]

Morrison, you can call me a martyr to these humanoids all you like.
 Apologize for them for being such a moronic wiseguy.

What galaxy over this planet Earth do I have to destroy you with my little
finger.  You stupid fucking Brutus nonsensical entity from hell.

Let it be.

On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 1:58 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Would that we could Internet intervene 4 Bled.
>
> Like the name. Implies martyrdom.
>
> Sorry all, for ignoring my own advice.
>
> David Morris
>
>
> On Sunday, November 11, 2012, Matthew Cissell wrote:
>
>> Dear Bled,
>>
>>  I may not agree with Alice or she with me, but I do try to keep it
>> civil. Slandering people achieves very little. Like the old saying goes: If
>> ya can't say soemthing nice...
>>
>>  By the way I don't think ill of you. Of course good Nietzschean that
>> you are you can't possibly care for all that.
>>
>> Best of luck with the inner voyages to the outer reaches. Have you ever
>> tried a course of lithium salts to change neurochem levels prior to your
>> voyages? Very different results whatever your theophantic substance.
>>
>> ciao
>> MC Otis
>>
>>
>>
>>   ------------------------------
>> *From:* Bled Welder <bledwelder at gmail.com>
>> *To:* alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
>> *Cc:* pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> *Sent:* Sunday, November 11, 2012 6:19 PM
>> *Subject:* Re: No novels from Roth anymore
>>
>> Excuse me for falling asleep for fifteen minutes your majesty,  I sleep
>> little anymore.
>>
>> I doubt Matthew was talking about square boxes.
>>
>> Perhaps perfect hexagons, and pentagons.  Yes we can see into the text.
>>  We can read, you mothership goddess.  You gave birth to us, and here we
>> are.
>>
>> We don't need no fucking boxes.  I want fucking hexagons.  I want to eat
>> fucking hexagons.  I am fucking hungry over here on this planet!
>>
>> I can't wait to one day give birth to you, you deserve life, you Alice in
>> Wonderland wonderhexafuckal.
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 10:18 AM, alice wellintown <
>> alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> So what have we got after an impressionist reader, a reader who puts
>> emphasis on the reader and the reading of a text, is disabused of his
>> reading of the film-like squares on the page by the formalist, after
>> the formalist and impressionist agree that the squares on the page are
>> a printing convention?  Is the reading without value? Is it wrong? A
>> misreading? A strong misreading? Why put so much weight on an a fact?
>> So the formailst critic points to the fact that the squares are a
>> convention and therefore not to be read as any part of the use of film
>> by the author. Why not put equal weight on the senstivity the
>> impressionist reader has to verbal naunce, to ambiguity, to the use of
>> graphics in modern--to postmodern texts, to the intellectual and
>> emotional self-awareness that admits that the fact, the convention
>> explains the use of the squares? Why not give weight to other elements
>> of the reading? Here we often read, from MB, to give a recent example,
>> a reading that admits to limited critical knowledge but is obviously
>> shaped by a deeply human personality. Is not a deeply humane
>> personality more important to reading a work of fiction than knowledge
>> of printing conventions? Is not knowledge of film, of psychology,
>> philosophy, math, science...at least as important as knowledge of
>> printing conventions when reading GR? So what if the facts argue
>> against the reading; a charitable reading, a common enough practice in
>> other disciplines, is all that is required to enrich one's own
>> reading.
>>
>> Itz a shame to turn an author's work into a spectator sport where
>> critics argue inside the industry and readers sit in the nosebleeders
>> like so many Oedipas wandering round in Yo-Yo-land, looking into black
>> boxes and holding the towel for the padantic Driblets.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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