Katje's peer

[Keith Davis]

Maybe a hangover from the family Christmas dinner, where I was attacked and
baited for not being a Chrumpster!

Thankfully, they're all good Christians, so they're blameless, or at least
forgiven, and I kept my mouth shut, except for the rapid chewing, leading
to the rapid escape!

On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 4:13 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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