Discuss

[Joseph Tracy]

I don't think Alice is bad, we just point in different directions on al lot of things.
On Feb 14, 2013, at 11:12 PM, David Morris 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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