In Which Pynchon Makes an Appearance

Joe Allonby joeallonby at gmail.com
Tue May 7 06:41:06 CDT 2013


Mostly, he shopped for hot sauce. Mason was doing more exploiting, and
one could argue that it was forced on him.


On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 5:10 AM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> Much as Dixon condemns the evil exploitation of Africans, when he is in
> Africa he exploits the people there.
>
>
> On Monday, May 6, 2013, Lemuel Underwing wrote:
>>
>> Well, Dixon's a Quake-errr, apt to Hang Out in the Malay Districts of the
>> World... not apt to exploit tho' the Red Coat says otherwise... remember him
>> taking the riding crop from the drive
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 7:35 PM, alice wellintown
>> <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> You won't want to hang with Dixon if he's exploiting you because he's a
>>> white guy from Europe and you are a black gal from Africa.
>>>
>>> Or with Zoyd if you are his ex-lover and want to be left alone, or one of
>>> his daughter's girlfriends when he's fishing for jailbait.
>>>
>>> Or with Doc when he gets that name tagged to him for the work he does
>>> with a doctor's bag.
>>>
>>> No that I mind a man with a past, even some skeletons in the
>>> closet...hell, we all sin somehow, but then again, that's a moral center
>>> kinda idea, like jesus sez, so that won't do for you sort of moral center
>>> guys. Nope, it's just not gonna work out if you have to bend it like the
>>> Flecktone's bango string to ger bonzo back in the good Graces of the lawd.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I don't know. Zoyd, Doc, and Dixon all seem like good hangs with a
>>>> moral center of sorts.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> > by Mrs. James Wood, good writer of fiction (her hubby says so too),
>>>> > who,
>>>> > however
>>>> > reveals she hasn't read TRP as closely as her husband hasn't
>>>> > either.....
>>>> >
>>>> > Yet, her point is so true and necessary to be said, IMHO....(I have
>>>> > watched
>>>> > the growth of
>>>> > the belief that readers must LIKE a book's characters, as if fiction
>>>> > were
>>>> > about all of
>>>> > our "nice" acquaintances, since so much of it is.....)
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > http://publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/56848-an-unseemly-emotion-pw-talks-with-claire-messud.html
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>
>



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