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

[rich]

Parodying a parody. To me that sounds like someone out of ideas

On Sunday, March 9, 2014, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Mar 8, 2014, at 9:56 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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