BE -- "death wish for the planet" why the internet?

[Mark Kohut]

I have learned from these word-based discussions. Thanks.  Characters,
round or flat,
are revealed by what they say and do. So, it is important to fix on what
remarks
might be "true' per P's vision amidst the satire, which is pervasive. and
therefore
how P views each character within his vision.

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 5:22 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> I agree that Maxine's sanguine take on the internet is also satirized.
> I mention the Seventies because that's when P published his masterwork
> GR, the novel that so brilliantly examines the themes you are
> discussing. If, as you assert, Ernie is a mouthpiece for Pynchon, then
> both are stuck in the Seventies.
>
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 4:50 AM, Thomas Eckhardt
> <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> > The question is not what we want P to say but what is there in the text.
> As
> > I have demonstrated, Ernie's view is not invalidated while Maxine's is.
> >
> > Why do you mention the 70s? Ernie is talking about the Eisenhower
> years/the
> > 60s.
> >
> >
> > Am 03.03.2016 um 00:24 schrieb ish mailian:
> >>
> >> So Pynchon is stuck in the seventies. Just playing that same old cold
> >> war tune, Gravity's Rainbow, with family in NYC with a 9-11 attack
> >> tossed in? I don't think so. Ernie may be stuck in the seventies but
> >> not the author. Nothing has changed? Ernie may have taught history but
> >> he stopped reading it after 1989.
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