BtZ42, p.21

[Mark Kohut]

When I felt innocently confident of my own self, only shadowily aware of
all the forces that had shaped
my personality, I remember feeling almost personally offended when I
learned that I might have taken
the MMPI. ......
Fuck the test-givers, I'm me and not measurable this way. I wanted to be
"free" of such
controlling measurements---which, sea-changed and differently deeper, we
will see in Slothrop, who
is easy to identify with here.

pull quote from wikipedia article:
"The MMPI was designed as an adult measure of psychopathology
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathology> and personality structure
in 1939."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Multiphasic_Personality_Inventory



On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 6:04 PM, nick heindl <nheindl13 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not really sure where to start, this is my first time hosting, and as a
> long-time lurker it can be intimidating trying to keep up... so I am just
> going to Dive Right In. Side note I am typing on my tablet which can be a
> pain in the ass so if some of the formatting is off sorry in advance but in
> the spirit of Pynchon it does seem to have a thing for capitalization...
>
> "This morning in his IN basket were orders sending him TDY some hospital
> out in the East end. No explanation beyond an attached carbon copy of a
> note to ACHTUNG requesting his reassignment " as part of the P.W.E. Testing
> program."
>
> Testing? And by whom? Slothrop thinking of P.W.E. as more of that
> Minnesota Multiphasic shit... Minnesota Multiphasic shit??
>
> Sorry if I'm missing or repeating anything I've been unable to keep up
> with the discussion the past few days.
>
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