BE: definitions of innocence (chs. 31, 40)

[malignd at aol.com]

Unless he means that innocence and guilt end with death -- not a very interesting point -- this is a bizarre statement.  If he had said there are no innocent dead, it would be a cruel statement, but arguable.    



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From: Rev'd Seventy-Six <revd.76 at gmail.com>
To: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
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Subject: BE: definitions of innocence (chs. 31, 40)


p. 340:
"...meantime the only help we get from the media is boo hoo the
innocent dead. Boo fuckin hoo. You know what? All the dead are
innocent. There's no uninnocent dead."

p.450:
"Everybody thinks they know more than her. The old sad delusion of
every insect-free know-it-all in this miserable town. Everybody thinks
they live in 'the real world' and she doesn't.... So that's what it
is, to be an 'innocent person'."

No flies on P. Just me, or does the author seem, ah,
uncharacteristically angry in this particular outing?

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