The Master (2012)

[Paul Mackin]

On 9/23/2012 11:44 AM, bandwraith at aol.com wrote:
> It's called PTSD now and it's still hideous. Open to civilians, or 
> anyone experiencing a traumatic event.

Yes, by the time Vietnam rolled around Vets were more properly 
diagnosed.   Our guys back then were mostly labeled schizophrenic for 
which in any case  ECT isn't used much for now I've heard. More for 
depressives and bipoloars like Carrie on Homeland. Good piece on Claire 
Danes in the Times today. A little spoilerish some might claim.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/t-magazine/claire-danes-goes-rogue.html?ref=travel-issue

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> From: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
> To: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Sun, Sep 23, 2012 10:41 am
> Subject: Re: The Master (2012)
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> By dint of a rather strange job I briefly held at mid century, I got 
> to meet a fair number of WWII vets whose post war adjustments ended up 
> as insanity or close to it.  My duty at the VA hospital was to act as 
> middle man on the electric shock therapy team. I got to talk to these 
> guys before and after we worked them over. I don't know whether our 
> approach helped or hurt.
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> On Sep 21, 2012, at 8:44 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> The Master has gleaned such good/bad reviews.  I think I like the bad 
> ones.  I'll see it real soon.
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> On Friday, September 21, 2012, Dave Monroe wrote:
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> ... @ least a couple of what I'm taking as obvious Against the Day
> references, @ very least, not only to the "pigeon post" during the
> siege of Paris (AtD Ch. 1, p. 19) ...
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> http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_1-25#Page_19 
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> http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Garçons_de_%2771 
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> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0701&msg=114462
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> ... + see as well, e.g., ...
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_post#Pigeon_post_of_Paris
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> http://www.cix.co.uk/~mhayhurst/jdhayhurst/pigeon/pigeon.html
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> http://www.amazon.com/Airlift-Balloon-Pigeon-Siege-Paris/dp/B0000CMMIP
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> http://parispigeonpost.wordpress.com/2011/04/06/siege-of-paris-pigeon-post-and-balloon-mail/ 
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> http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artoct10/al-pigeonpost.html 
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> ... but the pointed use of the phrase "against the day" itself ("We
> fought against the day and won") ...
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> The Master (2012)
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> http://www.themasterfilm.com/
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1560747/
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_(2012_film)
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