Anybody interested in Project Paperclip should probably stay away from the Jacobson book

[alice malice]

I comprehend your meaning well enough, David. Good stuff that. Monte?
Tawin and Dante and Pynchon? Moralist Satire? Wha? I know that Pynchon
is supposed to be some kind of modern Dante, putting people in hell
today, mommy, but...I don't get that. And Twain? No. I don't get how
Pynchon is like Twain.



On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 11:44 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Right. What Monte, Alice, and I have been talking about (although not all in
> the same way) is the nature of being human that we all share. That is the
> central subject in all of Pynchon's writing, which is why his writing is
> great.
>
> The specifics of any real conspiracy come and go. Their root causes remain,
> and are the real subject.
>
> David Morris
>
>
> On Friday, March 7, 2014, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>>
>> Beliefs probaby differ in  origin and nature depending on the belief and
>> the person.  Some are tentative working hypotheses and some are inherited
>> fundamentalisms, some emerge from experience or revelation.  Operation
>> paperclip was not a matter of belief but of real actions
>>
>> What you are saying about beliefs is  relevant to  certain conspiracies
>> and theories about conspiracies. But that is not what I have been talking
>> about all.
>>
>>
>> On Mar 6, 2014, at 10:54 PM, David Morris wrote:
>>
>> > Conspiracy beliefs are the natural product of an inquiring mind.
>> > Nihilism is its opposite. Does the world make sense? Or is there no sense?
>> > These are the choices. Conspiracy is a component in this question only
>> > because any sense that can be discerned is not freely given. It is hard to
>> > find. It requires a quest. And such a quest implies an opponent.  Eventually
>> > the questioner realizes the opponent is himself.  We have met the enemy...
>> >
>> > David Morris
>>
>
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