BEER Ch. 6, 57-61: Reg reports in

[David Morris]

Of course we should all know that this paranoid rule is provisional, not
doctrinal.

It is commentary on the primary text of Paranoia.

Thus said, it points to Paranoids as being either obsessives or sensitives:
 Manufacturing false realities or realizing formerly unseen realities.

That is always the rub with Pynchon's Paranoia.  Religion is Pynchon.

David Morris

On Saturday, October 26, 2013, Monte Davis wrote:

> It was Reg Despard who brought hashslingrz and Gabriel Ice to Maxine’s
> attention (p.10). By p. 41, having looked at hashslingrz’s disbursements,
> she was “wondering what Reg has gotten himself into and, worse, what he’s
> dragging her uncomfortably toward.” Oh, so Reg’s an active agent and she’s
> a passive victim? I don’t think so. “Paranoids are not paranoids (Proverb
> 5) because they’re paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves,
> fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.” (GR 292)
>
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