Discuss

[Keith Davis]

Yes, agreed. Or, yes a greed....

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>wrote:

> I would call the indiscriminate use and abuse of toxics broadcast in the
> environment and directly placed into the supermarkets and drug stores
> mindlessly intentional. The actions are intentional, the experiment is less
> likely intended. Once the die are cast, it's a matter of curiosity among
> the data analysts how the cancer rate, death rate, birth defect rate, etc.,
> etc. changes. There's a parallel there to be drawn between us each and all
> and Slothrop, I suppose.
>
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:30 PM, <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> I think Ian is implying that it was intentional.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com>
>> To: malignd <malignd at aol.com>
>> Cc: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Sent: Wed, Feb 13, 2013 10:04 pm
>> Subject: Re: Discuss
>>
>>  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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