Discuss

[Keith Davis]

Isn't an experiment something intentional?

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 6:00 PM, <malignd at aol.com> wrote:

> In which case, none of us is a Slothrop in that none of us is a singular
> case.  We are all victims of the same experiment.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
> To: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
> Cc: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Wed, Feb 13, 2013 11:42 am
> Subject: Re: Discuss
>
>  Ours is the first generation in human history to be raised consuming
> petrochemicals in the midst of almost uninterrupted nuclear fallout. What
> makes you think you haven't been experimented upon is called denial in the
> psychoanalytic parlance.
>
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 7:58 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>wrote:
>
>>  On 2/12/2013 11:14 PM, Michael Bailey wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 5:47 PM,  <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> We are not all the semi-famous Baby Tyrone who was handed over to be the
>>>> subject of experimentation.  Certanly I wasn't.  You, I don 't know ...
>>>>
>>>> We are all experimented on as children.
>>>>
>>>>  well, as a lad, my cousin experimented on me by putting my finger in a
>>> vise and tightening it until I got a blood blister.  Setting a
>>> lifelong pattern, I stood there amiably and bemusedly, almost savoring
>>> the feeling, until he tired of the experiment and opened the vise.
>>>
>>> Somehow our parents got word of it - I don't remember making a fuss -
>>> and he was administered gentle verbal correction -- another
>>> experiment, nobody knows how that sort of thing will turn out, but he
>>> grew up to be a kindly adult with whom I converse fearlessly.
>>>
>>>
>>  My younger sister once rendered me semiconscious swinging a stringed
>> pupet around in the air.  Hard ceramic material of some sort. I never told
>> on her of course.
>>
>> P
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