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

[Joseph Tracy]

It doesn’t matter could be one way to look at everything Pynchon or anyone else writes.  On the other hand, what  matters is what what doesn’t matter tells us about us. Which is another way. And there are yet other ways, competing with the competing narratives, non-narratives of non-presidents that don’t get shot, but do matter to us and tell us about us and our conspiracies that don’t matter but would like to. Matter.

 
> On Mar 8, 2016, at 4:54 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
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> One way to look at P's use of events that become conspiracy is that it
> doesn't much matter what the truth is, even if conclusive and
> definitive proof exists, a smoking gun or whatever, it doesn't much
> matter. Who killed JFK? It doesn't matter. Who is responsible for 11
> September? It doesn't matter. What matters is the narratives, the
> conspiracies, the competing narratives and how we see other narratives
> and what that tells us about us. For example, Maxine  is satirizedbecause she thinks that Ernie still believes that the Rosenbergs were
> innocent. They weren't. She may have been, but he wasn't. But that
> doesn't much matter. They are both dead, But the conspiracy to execute
> them, that matters. That makes Ernie's conspiracy, his paranoia,
> closer to Pynchon's, but ti doesn't make it Pynchon's conspiracy.
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