BtZ: Some more banana molecule stuff

[Gary Webb]

Hahaahaha the same place you've been getting your info apparently 

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> On Mar 29, 2016, at 7:41 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Pynchon was an angry young man? Where did you get this from?
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>> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 7:01 PM, Gary Webb <gwebb8686 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Pynchon wrote GR when he was still an angry young man... and to some extent, you can tell he was working out some of his demons (Maxwell's included Hahahahaha)... There is no resolution and there is no sympathy, and one could argue that Weissmann is one of the most terrifying characters in modern fiction sine Kurtz... One can't keep going to place time and time again...
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>>> On Mar 29, 2016, at 6:01 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> GR is critical of texts that, like the rocket or the cross are carried
>>> about as relics, as fetish, as scraps of the word of god or science or
>>> nature. If you fell into that honey pot one don't blame the book.
>>> 
>>> But Monte is simply wrong too. It ain't as simple as chemistry or any
>>> formula or system you can use your slide rule to calculate. It's a
>>> song you can hear or not. Those that can't can't.
>>> 
>>>> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 4:42 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> thanks, Monte. I do find your posts very informative. my question is a broad
>>>> one. Based on what we know about GR and what you've described below, one may
>>>> argue that GR is not a book one holds dear or looks for solace in our
>>>> advanced years--at least that's what Ive been pondering lately. Without
>>>> taking anything away from how transformative the book was for this reader in
>>>> my early years, I can't help but feel an ever increasing distance from it as
>>>> the years get shorter and one begins to see death as a tangible thing.
>>>> I believe we find the tools we need to get through life as sanely and
>>>> humanely as we can when we need them and then move one
>>>> what says you?
>>>> 
>>>> rich
>>>> 
>>>>> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I've sought but not found coherence and consistency in how GR's symbolic
>>>>> geology, biochemistry, etc.  link life, death, and various layers of the
>>>>> earth. That scumbled bananery topsoil, the soil in which a Herero woman is
>>>>> ritually embedded, the hot radioactive mud at Bad Karma, and the deep strata
>>>>> of metals and hydrocarbons all have different symbolic freight, and each
>>>>> bears a different relation to natural life and assorted unnatural analogues
>>>>> of life. Likewise, flight gets a few good vibes, but its extension intso
>>>>> pace travel is clearly nixed and __nicht_ed as a route to Good
>>>>> Transcendence.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sometimes I think Pynchon never got the memo about the fruitful,
>>>>> nourishing, ever-rebirthing Earth Mother and the wise, justice-dispensing
>>>>> Sky Father -- or even the one about the brawny dumb earth god and serene
>>>>> Queen Selene. He's just a suspicious cuss all around.
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