pynchon-l-digest V2 #9514

[Don Antenen]

You make some enormous logical leaps in your reply.

This is a list-serv for discussing Pynchon, so I assume all of us give a fat Fuck about his opinion. Still, he's a novelist, so I'm not sure what it means to 'trust' him. I guess I trust that his fiction will be good.

The death of 3000+ at the hands of Islamist terrorists was a tragedy (a tragedy repeated on a smaller scale across the middle east every week). The idea that the event was planned or orchestrated by the US government (or Israeli government or both, depending on the conspiracy theory) is ludicrous. At this point, all of the various (contradictory) conspiracy theories about the event have been so thoroughly debunked that their proponents are not worth engaging with.

If one denies illogical, bizarre conspiracy theories, it does not follow that one believes America to be "eternally good" or even momentarily good.

I generally find Pynchon fans to be intelligent and interesting, so it's disappointing that such nonsense is given any quarter here.

all the best,
Donald


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 From: Bled Welder <bledwelder at gmail.com>
To: Don Antenen <dantenen at yahoo.com> 
Cc: "pynchon-l at waste.org" <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 8:42 PM
Subject: Re: pynchon-l-digest V2 #9514
 

God I'm so fucking sorry to disappoint you, bro.
 
What did I say.  That the buildings were built to be destroyed by their builders?
 
Who gives a fat Fuck what Thomas Pynchon's opinion is?  If he wants to be a reet about it, then fair enough.  It's scary, I know.
 
The question was how can we trust Pynchon.  The answer glued over your eyes is clearly : "Implictly."
 
Mmmm, Oooohhhhhh, what's Pynchon's take on the falling towers?  Such a tragedy.  "We" would never do that to "ourselves".
 
America is eternally Goooood.
 
Right.  I'm sure Pynchon thinks that.  Why do you think he's been in hiding for 60 years, ya reet?


On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Don Antenen <dantenen at yahoo.com> wrote:

Disappointed to see 9/11 conspiracy theories on the list. Pynchon's work seems so clearly to be a (beautiful, hilarious, complicated) demolition of conspiracist thinking.
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>all the best,
>Donald
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