(np) not TFG but 41 & 43

[Mark Kohut]

And it is more than reductive binary thinking, a crucial oeuvre-long theme
of Pynchon's it often is
Thinking Revenge, as Pynchon knew best in Gravity's Rainbow. A way of
foreign policy "thinking"
that wants revenge on a bad country so much that it can't see straight
about other countries.
Or changes or other things in that country.

It is so revealing. Ressentiment so deep and pervasive the mind and eyes
are self-condemned. Read Stirner
and Nietzsche on this if one cares to. Or Lewis's Self-Condemned, Lewis not
unlike Pynchon.
So often as Nietzsche, Pynchon and Roth knew best, fierce
fundamentalist-like religious beliefs (or upbringing)
create the soil of sheep and goats---American Puritanism, for example, in
my face again as I read and teach Roth.


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On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 12:45 AM Michael Bailey <
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thomas & Mark wrote:
>
> TE: The "international war crime of invading a sovereign country" reminds
> me
> of John Kerry:
>
> "You just don’t in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by
> invading another country on completely trumped up pretext."
>
> It should also remind you of a simple true thing.
>
> MK:
>
> I agree with almost nothing Trump did,
>
>
> (Woody Allen voice - “May I interject one statement at this juncture?
> And I don’t mean to be didactic or facetious in any way.”)
>
>  I think he was talking about things, not Trump, but the Bushes, did,
> of which we (everyone on earth) are still suffering the not
> inconsequential - nay, quite considerable, consequences.
>
>
>
> Just let me say one thing. My uncle Sidney - lovely uncle, dead,
> completely - used to say three things. He used to say: Acceptance,
> forgiveness and love. And *that* is a philosophy of life: Acceptance,
> forgiveness and love. - Woody Allen, as Broadway Danny Rose
> --
> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>