This week in pointless trivia.

[Fiona Shnapple]

And who is saved or safe? Maxine takes a file from a message man, on
another man who seems sinister enough, hands it over to her kids who share
it with wiz kids at a high school who open it for her. They don't read it
because, they are not into reading, not this generation, but still.  How
can she expect privacy when she violates it, even involves kids in her
peeping, creeping.

And, of course, the kids are just in it for the game. What have they to
lose? A few points? A life or two? Even game over, play again?

They've never known privacy.


Maxine's old man talks of Jaffe, who refused to testify. Blacklisted, he is
a teacher of math in a hs. Where kids, like Maxine's kids are opening files
and creeping in on the private lives of teachers.





On Sunday, October 6, 2013, Markekohut wrote:

> LIKE. Below. ( Can't cut & paste)
>
> I think THAT fact about BLEEDING EDGE is continuous with Pynchon's life's
> work yet is also a cutting edge perspective on our continuing loss of
> self--if self contains our privacy; if self is some kind of " real" ---in
> our sick and virtual brave new world.
> >
> > As usual, the timing of this opus as regards the "Traumatic Burst" of
> our culture in the moment of the Novel's street date is extraordinary.
> >
> > On Oct 6, 2013, at 8:47 AM, Carvill John wrote:
> >
> >> >John - How far along are you, exactly? I will say that for me the book
> didn't really pick up until the last 10 or 11 chapters.
> >>
> >> Just finished Chapter 20. Joi de Beaver etc. Dull
> > -
> > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
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