Discuss

[Joseph Tracy]

My God, I think I'm in agreement with a w.
On Feb 14, 2013, at 6:54 AM, alice wellintown wrote:

> Formalist Criticism or a close reading supports the traditional and
> pluralistic reading, so Slothrop may be an Everyman, or an alegorical
> figure, an Invisible Man, who, ironically, once his white-washing is
> wasted, becomes a crossroads and, other things too, but Invisible
> nonetheless. Formalist will not insist that Slothrop is a character in
> an Object, a book, at the exclusion of the Psychological, Historical,
> Biographical Etc...readings. So, both/and here. No?
> 
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 10:04 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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