remember all the clothes

rich richard.romeo at gmail.com
Wed Apr 24 08:18:43 CDT 2013


somewhat frustrated by this notion of vendetta against the bad guys,
karmic adjustment, as if there are clear good guys and bad guys out
there--the world isnt like that.

read the piece in the new yorker this week about aleppo for a
taste--was it any different than in beirut in the 80s, sarajevo in the
90s, baghdad in the 00's?





On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Oedipal has to remove when she plays Strip Botticelli?
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> "Curfews were not the only erotic problem we faced....
> ....a variety of coed undergarments fiendishly designed to delay until
> Curfew, if not to prevent outright, any access to one's date's  pelvic area."
>                   ----Pynchon's intro to Farina's novel, 1983
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> "[Gnossos ] is susceptible to the thrill of vendetta or karmic adjustment,
> An impulse I suspect isn't entirely absent from why Farina wrote the novel"
>                         ---pynchon
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> As adumbrated by Pynchon, part of the motivation for Farina's novel was Cornell's
> Crackdown on partiers like him ( including his suspension, although soon rescinded after the protesting) .
>
> So, fiction can be 'karmic adjustment' ?
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> Sent from my iPad



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