Discuss

[David Morris]

Still, Alice is often bad.  Say it or not, dontcha think?  Don't have to
say...

On Thursday, February 14, 2013, Joseph Tracy wrote:

> 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<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> > >> Isn't an experiment something intentional?
> > >> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 6:00 PM, <malignd at aol.com <javascript:;>>
> 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 <javascript:;>>
> > >>> To: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net <javascript:;>>
> > >>> Cc: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org <javascript:;>>
> > >>> 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 <javascript:;>>
> > >>> wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>> On 2/12/2013 11:14 PM, Michael Bailey wrote:
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 5:47 PM,  <malignd at aol.com <javascript:;>>
> 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
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> www.innergroovemusic.com
> >
>
>
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