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

[David Morris]

Joeseph,
Your ambition seems akin to journalism and advocacy.  That's a very cool
motive, but I'm just saying that it limts the range of discussion on a work
of art. I don't presume your ignorance of the human psyche.  I just don't
share your focus, nor your spectrum.  I see a very big net of messages when
I read Pynchon, and they are usually fallible ones, purposefully so.
 Pynchon advocates a lot, about situations that are as irresolvable as
koans. Pynchon loves his Zen.
David Morris

David:  I understand  the idea that conspiracy thinking can develop from
the  human search for explanations.  This has not for many years been new
or revelatory thinking to me.  In no way am I of those who think that some
revelation of the real "them" is critical to some great global  or personal
liberation. But, in general, accurate information  and open conversation
 is good for us.

I don't think reading about operation paperclip will be old news for
everyone . For some, it will force a re-thinking of US history in the WW2
era. It challenges the Paul Ryan, the zombie-eyed granny starver from
Wisconsin.
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