Bleeding Edge too dull for terrorists

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Thanks for this, John. It brings that Maxine-in-DeepArcher sequence to life.

LK


-----Original Message-----
>From: John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>
>Sent: Mar 30, 2016 8:09 AM
>To: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>Cc: Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>, pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: Bleeding Edge too dull for terrorists
>
>This morning's internet traffic and weather report was about the
>obsolete 90s virtual realm Active Worlds. Nobody has been on there for
>a long time but someone livestreaming their visit to the abandoned
>realm (because it's abandoned - basically a haunted house tour of the
>web) ran across a bot that turned out to be much more. As in, a person
>who has been hanging around in an empty virtual world for a decade or
>longer. Or is something else.
>
>There's more to the story but that idea of the conscientious online
>castaway is such a sweet one. And Deep Archer is totally based on
>worlds such as this, and I can only imagine what the peeps who ran
>into him back in the day read in his dialogue box.
>
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRgATG6PUA0
>
>On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:49 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> A---And....P's half-prophetic role in effect in BE; the theme, as you've
>> noted if I don't distort, of a new 'pure' space which really isn't or won't
>> stay that way if it is......
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 7:45 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> There you go again, spoiling a perfectly good techno-mythology with dull
>>> facts. As Pynchon knew perfectly well while he was writing BE, we *need* the
>>> dark Web to be full of apocalyptic schemes and secrets, just like Pirate
>>> needed his sleepy sweaty Middle Eastern garrison to be the origin of the
>>> next Mahdi.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 4:00 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2016/03/dark-web-too-slow-and-annoying-terrorists/127002/
>>>
>>>
>>
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