(np) not TFG but 41 & 43

[Michael Bailey]

hope you are done here on this, Mark, because I am.


On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 6:43 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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