Pynchon Quoted

[David Morris]

Yes.  I left that point out on purpose.  If Pynchon didn't see the
subtleties, contradictions and paradoxes, he wouldn't be the great writer
that he is.

David Morris

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Pynchon writes about that, AND a great deal more -- some of it
> contradicting and cross-cutting that -- which St. Clair missed, ignored or
> denied in his P-list days 20 years back. It's symptomatic that he presents
> fictional character Ernie Tarnow's words as Pynchon's (without even double
> quotes), and capitalizes "Their" (which Pynchon didn't).
>
> All of us, at some point, seek validation for our own views in our
> favorite authors. Some of us outgrow it.
>
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 10:34 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Well, Pynchon does indulge him, no?  In other words, Pynchon writes about
>> exactly what HE is looking for.
>>
>> David Morris
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Ah, good old Steely: still getting from Pynchon exactly what he looks
>>> for.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 2:38 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> From Jeffrey St Clair's Facebook news feed:
>>>>
>>>> Thomas Pynchon: "Never forget your Internet was Their invention, this
>>>> magical convenience that creeps now like a smell through the smallest
>>>> details of our lives, the shopping, the housework, the homework, the taxes,
>>>> absorbing our energy, eating up our precious time. And there's no
>>>> innocence. Anywhere. Never was. It was conceived in sin, the worst
>>>> possible. As it kept growing, it never stopped carrying in its heart a
>>>> bitter-cold death wish for the planet, and don't think anything's
>>>> changed, kid. Call it freedom, it's based on control. Everybody connected
>>>> together, impossible anybody should ever get lost, ever again. Take the
>>>> next step, connect it to these cell phones, you got a total Web of
>>>> surveillance, inescapable. You remember the comics in the Daily News? Dick
>>>> Tracy's wrist radio? It'll be everywhere, the rubes'll all be begging to
>>>> wear one, handcuffs of the future. Terrific. What they dream about at the
>>>> Pentagon, worldwide martial law."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
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