Discuss

[Keith Davis]

Without reading the ending again, which is what has to happen to be clear
about this, my impression is that Slothrop escaped from the idea of owning
a personal identity, though it didn't have much to do with his making any
effort to do so, it just happened organically as a result of the
experiences he went through. Escaped isn't a good description. Fell from
it? Leapt from it?

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >
> > -----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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