pynchon-l-digest V2 #9514

[Bled Welder]

Thank you my friend.  A HUMAN has been spotted!  IAN!

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>wrote:

> What? We're going to censor the anarchists and the paranoid? Hm.
>
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> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Don Antenen <dantenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> 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:
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>> 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.
>>
>> all the best,
>> Donald
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