Katje's peer

[David Morris]

Up to you, of course.  But when you say things like "The novel is too
deconstructive for the usual Western rationality,"  you should expect some
blow-back, mostly because it is flat wrong.

David Morris

On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 3:30 PM, Bruno Nogueira <bruno.laze at gmail.com> wrote:

> Didn't know amateur discussion was prohibited here. I'll go back to my
> lurker status.
> About being silly, sometimes I forget that most people avoid being earnest
> if it's not masked in irony, sarcasm, etc.
>
>
> 2017-01-03 15:13 GMT-06:00 Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com>:
>
>> 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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>>>> www.innergroovemusic.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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>> www.innergroovemusic.com
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