Katje's peer

[David Morris]

Just in case you misunderstood, I was asking Bruno, not you, Keith.

On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you!
>
> Ok, here's another answer. Most, possibly all, of the people who come
> here, and have been here for a while, are here because we're big fans of
> Pynchon's work. That means we've all put a lot of time into reading and
> re-reading and discussing his work. Plenty of people here are ready at any
> time to jump into discussions of meaning and interpretation, e.g. all of
> the supportive response to Mike Jing's translation efforts.
> Serious questions always, or usually, anyway, receive serious responses.
> On the other hand, questions that have to do with details that can, and
> only in my humble opinion, should, be discovered by a serious reading of
> the text, are likely to be met with silly answers, or, as would have been
> better in the present case, on my part, no answer.
>
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 2:15 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Are you trying to sound silly?  If so, good job!
>> David Morris
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, January 3, 2017, Bruno Nogueira <bruno.laze at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> It is very pleasing to fill gaps in memory with imagination!
>>> But you are right, Keith. I have lots of reading to do, as always. Don't
>>> we all?
>>> Even so, someone said that GR should be read the way we listen to jazz.
>>> Maybe words (/the music sheet) aren't that important as the soul and
>>> abstract meaning (/the phenomenology of music). Our abstract concept of
>>> Katje may be more important than the referential details. How do you feel
>>> about her? I suspect that, regarding GR, if we don't listen to what we
>>> feel, the whole novel implodes (like jazz!): nothing narrated is
>>> trustworthy, is it? Like the old hippie said: "I don't have words. I have a
>>> soul."
>>>
>>> Katje is a spy? She works for whom? Us or Them?...
>>>
>>> 2017-01-03 11:21 GMT-06:00 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> Yeah,  I don't remember things the way Bruno tells them...
>>>>
>>>> David Morris
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You have some reading to do.
>>>>>
>>>>> Www.innergroovemusic.com
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jan 3, 2017, at 11:54 AM, Bruno Nogueira <bruno.laze at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Except that Katjer worked for the Germans, didn't she? My memory fails
>>>>> me---I remember one of her first episodes depicting a threesome with
>>>>> Blicero and Enzian, at the V2 shack, where they all lived like rats. She
>>>>> was then sent by Bliss to London, to spy on the White Visitation.
>>>>> Btw, what is the relation between Pirate Prentice, Katje, and Slothrop?
>>>>>
>>>>> Happy new year to you all!
>>>>> Bruno
>>>>>
>>>>> 2017-01-02 16:53 GMT-06:00 Bob Berg <robertberg5125 at comcast.net>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/teenager-nazi-armed-resis
>>>>>> tance-netherlands-876?utm_source=dmfb
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -
>>>>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>
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