Goodbye for now, P-list

[Dave Monroe]

On 10/9/13, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> NO conspiracies, because no single conspiracy?  Historically absurd
> nonsense. I prefer my own interpretation. It isn't that March sees the truth
> of an  all encompassing global us-them conspiracy. It is that there are
> quite a few very nasty conspiracies which are simply perfectly acceptable(
> with sufficient liquidity) to those with the power to address them
> politically or legally. If you try to document and expose these conspiracies
> you will be marginalized, jailed, threatened, killed etc. right here in the
> US of A.  March oversimplifies what she sees a glimpse of, Maxine quite
> reasonably chumps out after seeing more than anyone else( she is , in fact,
> as baffled as March)  Reg redirects his efforts, Avi learns a lesson, the
> web wars are clearly going on but don't look good for the info wants, should
> or has to be free crowd,  and nobody in any Pynchon novel can put enough of
> a hole in any of the shady shit to make much difference; but Pynchon never
> really deals with or fully incarnates the real resistance in the real world.
> Because of the loss of legal recourse, because media have become little more
> than  republican democrat propaganda, because of the real arrests and the
> loss of a meaningful bill of rights, volunteers for resistance in the real
> world are few and sometimes paranoid. Nevertheless there are quite a few
> defectors from the red blue wars who by any standards show the power of
> resistance in far more impressive import than the characters in Pynchon
> novels, which characters are really all just him.

... goddamit, just when I may well have tim actually to start keeping
up w/ all this again ...

> There is nothing in this novel for me and though I enjoy much of what
> happens here on the P-list I will be pretty scarce from now on.
>
>  I will be happy to converse off list but: Please cancel my part in the
> group read.
>
> Much genuine affection and respect for all. You are some smart and
> interesting people who have stimulated much thought  for me.

... thnaks for everything, Mr. Tracy, + do please keep an open mind to
returning sometime (the sooner the better) ...

> Joseph Tracy,  he of the inconsistent punktuation.

... Dave Monroe, he of the inconsistent ...
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