regarding the Rainbow, and its constituents, namely Mr. Morris.

[David Morris]

You are very self-absorbed.  But then so are most of us.  Learn to own it.

On Wednesday, September 26, 2012, David Morris wrote:

> You know about the "but"  that precedes the zing?
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> Your's is as hollow as they get.  Flesh please.  Shallow snipes are not
> worth your own post.
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> On Wednesday, September 26, 2012, Bled Welder wrote:
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>> Do you know what mildly interests me about you Mr. Morris?
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>> I think that, as a quality of character, about you, that this is fairly
>> compatitble with genuine curiosity, which I'm about to approach--
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>> You are a Rainbow scholar.  I've heard some of your opinions, and I
>> respect your opinions.  In fact as far as I remember I may as well as agree
>> with them.  Your opinions of Rainbow are well thought and profound and I
>> believe they have a resonance of truth about them that anyone who disagrees
>> should tread very carefully with you.
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>> But you don't like Pynchon's other work.  And this *too* is fine, I
>> reckon.  While I don't personally care for parsing out what's-what in
>> Pynchonlandonianiequalimonium--Pynchon is Pynchon, to me--I can very much
>> understand your view.
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>> And I should, before I say anything else, I want you to know, that I have
>> *always* dug you.  I still do.  You are Humphrey Bogart in a tutu.
>>  "Just the facts."  It's frikkin awesome.
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>> But the thing is, and I say this because I know it's a *real* good
>> point, and I know others will see it too and begin to understand it.  Which
>> is what I'm trying to do, my friend.  The thing *is*:
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>> Your personality, in my opinion, is in distinct contradisctinction to the
>> *spirit* of the Rainbow.  How can this *be?*
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