Let It Bleed

[bandwraith at aol.com]

Yea, yea, don't give me any of that rock n' roll crap, what about the 
insignia? You know they love that shit almost as much as pushing the 
button on people 10,000 miles away from the safety of their bunker. 
They love the rank and respect. Oh they pretend to be all humble and 
business-like, patriotic rubbish and such, but deep down they crave the 
status and respect due to the coolest of the bleeding edge. They want 
to wear a symbol on their lapel- something understated yet distinctive- 
whatever passes for "bespoke" in military circles. Their just playing 
video games for Christ sake. They need something to keep the heebie 
jeebies at bay- the bad dreams, the sickening thoughts about maimed and 
mutilated children without ever risking their own necks, even the guilt 
about the special forces on the ground you alluded to, passing on the 
coordinates, sometimes not coming back.

Speaking of which- I will not see "Zero Dark Thirty." I can't imagine a 
more stultifying experience. Well maybe, screening "The Dark Knight 
Rises" in Aurora, Co. There's probably a connection there somewhere, a 
long and tenuous one, something like blow back- like all the Afghani 
heroin seeping into the streets but less defined and proscribable, more 
insidious, but just as lethal for the collective psyche of America.


-----Original Message-----
From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sat, Jan 5, 2013 1:38 pm
Subject: Re: Let It Bleed


But...broken arrow....Did you see ...Razor Boy...all I got...is a razor 
love....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss99f6omHLg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW_ND105WfE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD0PdfWV6yA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pn4enGn4yg



On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 11:44 AM,  <bandwraith at aol.com> wrote:
> Yea, well, In was born in a Jewish hospital, so you can put your 
razor away.
> Only a little downpayment on a pound, I know, but my credit's pretty 
good.,
> and If there is a steady conversion rate between flesh and money, 
what about
> time? I've heard tell they're one and the same, yet somehow I think 
some may
> be getting shorted.
>
> As far as insignification goes, I was thinking along the lines of a 
cloud
> with an emergent finger.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Sat, Jan 5, 2013 9:12 am
> Subject: Re: Let It Bleed
>
>
> Here's a clue on that insignia: some have a chess piece and the
> jeaopard sucking its own tail.  Springing over all those powerful
> pieces, defending, from the center of the board, attacking with
> parabolic precision, after couragous information gathering and
> survailance; this takes more with intestinal fortitude than sitting on
> one's ass calling them cowards. Ain't nothing cozy about it, son.
> Yeah. most is just boyz. Sure they got good equipment. Sure they got
> body armor.
>
> But as Shylock sez, all I got for you is a razor love.
>