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

[Markekohut]

I second and third Morris and Davis on this topic re Pynchon. And in BLEEDING EDGE particularly, TRP seems to be taking on paranoia and conspiracy thinking thematically...." "Paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen." ---TRP satirizes even his own themes...his tightrope art is to balance on the knife edge of overt " message" , in most ways, so to speak. It's Iceland Spar all through. 

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On Mar 8, 2014, at 9:56 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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