Operation Mindfuck

[rich]

id say I agree on those two points, David

On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 6:36 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Rich,
>
> Also,
>
>> I think we have different takes on “conspiracy” literature:
>
> 1. Those describing  conspiracies  born and bread amongst oppurnistc
>  mortals for fun and control.
>
>  2. And those that are baked into the mysterious cosmos in which we all
> live.
>
> Long, very long ago on this list there was a woman who repeatedly called
> Pynchon a “working mystic,” and I think he was in GR.  Despite GR’s last
> image, I see as a mystic poet, describing history’s  dynamics, not an
> explicit history.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 7:53 PM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com
>>
>
> <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
>>
>>> I just finished another re-read of Lot49 and it seems to me Pynchon
>>> may have less love for that work seeing as he already covered similar
>>> ground in V., quests and impending revelations and things that harbor like
>>> being epic, man. But maybe he was fed up with the conspiracy game even back
>>> then and burns it to the ground in GR, but this time with more
>>> explicit references to real-world blue meanies. Lot 49 is rather coy about
>>> such things.
>>>
>>> rich
>>> --
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>>>
>>