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[Keith Davis]

What other way is there?


On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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