BEER Group Read. "introduced as 'friends'"

[Mark Kohut]

I'll just subsume it under pynchon's satirization of the profession
ala above--and now patients as 'friends'....

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----- Original Message -----
From: John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2013 8:54 PM
Subject: Re: BEER Group Read. "introduced as 'friends'"

Freud is close to freund (friend) too.

You may have a point - if Kugelblitz introduced patients to each other
as "friends" and that's how they recognised kindred spirits, it
suggests that the professor couldn't have had any "friends" who he
hadn't put through the psych wringer.

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I used to ask some of my NYC friends who went to the psych doctors every week,
> what they provided that a friend who listened did not?
>
> Pynchon has Dr. Kugelblitz call his patients his 'friends'.
>
> P showing the debasement of the meaning of friend?
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