BEER Group Read. "introduced as 'friends'"

[Mark Kohut]

Yeahp. Any part of P's vision thinks we have lost some ways of being more communally involved in
all kinds of ways in the modern world? 

From: John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>
To: Rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> 
Cc: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>; pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2013 10:34 PM
Subject: Re: BEER Group Read. "introduced as 'friends'"


Yeah, expecting friends to be willing and able to do the same job as
any variety of therapist/shrink/etc is like expecting them to unclog
your blocked up toilet pipes.

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> NYC isn't a pleasant place if you're lonely or neurotic. This place was made for shrinks
>
> What friend could ever give it straight. Love and all sorts of shit get in the way.
>
>> On Oct 13, 2013, at 9:46 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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