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[Keith Davis]

He stumbled into grace.

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:12 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Don't fear the truth.  Alice isn't always bad.
>
>
> On Thursday, February 14, 2013, Joseph Tracy wrote:
>
>> 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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>>


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