Discuss

[Joseph Tracy]

Or could Slothrop be an everyman and a made up somebody at the very same time?
On 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.
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> -----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
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> 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.
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> 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 ...
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> We are all experimented on as children.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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