That's the Catch. (Heller's immortal insight trope was that 'double bind' contradiction in our--US anyway--life. )

[Mark Kohut]

It is just a copy and paste of your email.
My full answer to it is in the subject line. 

Mark

My computer can not Forward at the moment. 

The other email just seconds Jochen on "credulously"
And the twist from my memory of the novel. (This is 
Almost certainly a created memory, but your question made me
Think I asked myself the same question---your question-/
When I read it!   

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jan 5, 2019, at 8:12 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> Your email is coming through garbled somehow. I'm not sure where the problem might be.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
>> On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 8:01 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> NP; Good as Gold: rhetorical questions
>> 
>> Inbox
>> x
>> 
>> Mike Jing via waste.org 
>> 
>> 12:36 AM (7 hours ago)
>> 
>> 
>>  to Pynchon
>> 
>> Just to make sure I got this right. In the following passage, Lieberman
>> first says "No more rhetorical questions", then immediately proves himself
>> wrong by using a rhetorical question in his own article. Is that correct?
>> 
>> Producing from somewhere inside his soiled and rumpled clothing a copy of
>> the next issue of his magazine, he swept open the pages until he at last
>> found the one he wanted, his regular feature boldly headlined “An Outspoken
>> Editor Speaks His Mind, by M. G. Lieberman, Editor.” “Listen to what I’ve
>> got coming up,” he cried with excitement and prepared to read. “No more
>> rhetorical questions,” he exclaimed and began, “‘What, then, shall we say
>> to those who argue this may lead us into war? I say, unflinchingly, then
>> let us have war.’ How’s that? I express nothing but opprobrium and scorn
>> for the failure of nerve of all the members of the cowardly Eastern liberal
>> establishment. That’s a phrase,” he could not hold himself back from
>> footnoting, “I got from Henry Kissinger.”