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

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Thu Sep 27 07:35:45 CDT 2012


I guess I should be flattered by your fascination with me, but I'm
not.  So, good bye.

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Bled Welder <bledwelder at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just a total obviousness, the Rainbow is constructed of long tangled dense
> sentences that for/by which one doesn't know what the eff what is going on
> or froming from.  It's poetic and profound in every sentence--it wants to be
> more than what is real.
>
> You, David, you're just the opposite.  You're frank, you're obvious, you're
> simple.  You're matter-of-fact.
>
> Fine.  It's the opposite of the Rainbow.  But you favor the Rainbow.  That's
> where your brain becomes mildly interesting to me.
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Bled Welder <bledwelder at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I was just saying that, your personality does not fit the personality of
>> the Rainbow.
>>
>> What does that mean is my question.  Am I really so shallow...?  What am I
>> noticing here?
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 7:56 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> You know about the "but"  that precedes the zing?
>>>
>>> Your's is as hollow as they get.  Flesh please.  Shallow snipes are not
>>> worth your own post.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, September 26, 2012, Bled Welder wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Do you know what mildly interests me about you Mr. Morris?
>>>>
>>>> I think that, as a quality of character, about you, that this is fairly
>>>> compatitble with genuine curiosity, which I'm about to approach--
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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:
>>>>
>>>> Your personality, in my opinion, is in distinct contradisctinction to
>>>> the spirit of the Rainbow.  How can this be?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
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