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

[Mike Jing]

I see. Somehow gmail doesn't like the way it was copied, and the formatting
is all messed up. I'm not sure if this is a new "feature" of gmail or what.

Since Lieberman answers his own question in the quoted article, does the
question still count as a rhetorical question? It's not quite clear to me
from the definition.

rhetorical, adj
4. Designating a question asked only to produce an effect or make a
statement, rather than to elicit an answer or information. Chiefly in
rhetorical question.


On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 8:27 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 <https://support.google.com/mail/answer/1311182?hl=en>
>> 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.”
>>
>