Yet another take on True Detective

[David Morris]

Many others have experienced those perceptions, and they are quite real,
not delusions, but without a practice in spiritual discipline they can lead
to psychosis. If you go out there without a hold on to this realm, a way
back, you could put yourself in great mental danger. You need a teacher or
guide or a discipline.  Be careful.

David Morris

On Tuesday, February 25, 2014, Indel Icate <indelicateexplasions at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I've been tripping out, like hard, in an odd sort of fashion, as of late,
> when the storm rises out of the twilight mist, and the paradox meets the
> synchronicity.  Things, assumptionses, are occurring, rapidly, these days,
> these mindless timeforms, and there is not but a thing, to describe
> themselves.  How do you say quantum in a literal way, I mean as
> in...literally. By which I mean, bookish.
>
> I think it's quite possible that we are, literally, multidimensional.
>
> I think that, that is, what was, is, and what never happened, happened.  I
> do not believe that what is, happening, is happening.  There is no time.
>  It does not exist.  Yet I'm speaking of it.
>
> As I become, in age, which is absurd, in my early 40s, there is a
> no-something, that is occurring.  I am developing this notion, that there
> is something manifesting on this planet that has not, logickly, to do, with
> reason.
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Antonin Scriabin <
> kierkegaurdian at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Two of my female friends who watch TD think Woody is gorgeous, and of
> course Matt spent the better part of his career playing dumb eye candy in
> rom-coms. So I don't think it's true that ALL the men are ugly, and ALL the
> women are hot and sexualized. Also see the not super hot, not sexualized,
> chief of surgery woman Cohle is set up with.
>  On Feb 25, 2014 12:29 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> Look, I really like the show, but I, too, cringed when yet another nubile
> young woman - she's a clerk at a phone store, not a prostitute - begs
> overweight, older, drunk, married and, frankly, ugly Woody to fuck her in
> the ass. And this young woman, with her history of being an abused child
> turned child-whore, growing up in the strip mall/pork-rind-eating white
> trash culture, has an absolutely flawless face and body. I guess if she had
> a little flab on her belly, Woody wouldn't dream of fucking her in any
> orifice at all. Even Pynchon referenced in V the sad freshman adage that
> "the ugly ones fuck." Where are the ugly (read: real) women?  Maybe my
> complaint is with the casting director: aside from the younger black
> detective (who's merely averagely attractive), and Matt (who cleans up well
> in the younger scenes, but isn't what you'd call stunning, given the
> character's weird personality) every man on the show is ugly. The redneck
> men don't have flawless faces and bodies - no, that wouldn't be realistic,
> would it? They're overweight, scarred, tattooed, pierced and butt-ugly.
> Poor Michelle W. - after years of a bad marriage to Woody, she doesn't even
> earn the right to a double chin or a little flab? Presumably, if she'd "let
> herself go," we'd see Woody's fucking around as justified. Oh, and where
> are the black women? Two black male detectives, and a token black male
> preacher in the first episode - who's in his congregation? Not sexy enough
> to be hookers or bimbos for Woody?
>
> You mention Sherlock, Monte. Again,two main white male characters - but
> lots of eye candy for women. The show's launched practically a mass
> movement in China:
>
>
> http://www.thewire.com/culture/2014/01/chinese-women-cant-stop-reading-and-writing-sherlock-gay-fan-fic/357046/
>
>
> Yes, the truth is finally out about what women want. We want to see
> straight guys doing each other. We want to write and think and snicker
> about it. Why? Because it's an absolute thrill for us to see men treated as
> sex objects, for a fucking change.
>
> Laura
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Monte Davis
> Sent: Feb 25, 2014 10:44 AM
> To: rich
> Cc: kelber , "pynchon-l at waste.org"
> Subject: Re: Yet another take on True Detective
>
> I admire Nussbaum, but this time I think she's tasking TD with the sins of
> many lesser movies and TV shows trading in detective bromance, victimized
> women etc. Yeah, they've been abused a lot, but they get all their  "These
> tropes are so easy and abused by now."
>
> She writes as if she fe
>
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