Katje's peer

[Keith Davis]

I considered that, but thought my answer could use some explication...or
maybe I just don't when to shut up!

On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 4:10 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>
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