"Shh! Will you just—"
* * * * * * * * * *
"Shh!"
Instead of mocking the amount of time this project would take me, why couldn't Redditors have simply said, "What a dumb project. You know one of the lines you'll have to explicate is simply 'Shh!'?" They could have saved me so much time by simply pointing out that Pynchon couldn't have possibly meant for the reader to think critically about each line both in and out of the context of the entire text if some of his lines were just one word responses to other characters. Fucking jerks.
Although this line could mean something on its own if I stretch the limits of my academic imagination! When somebody shushes you, they want you to listen. They want you to hear what's being said. This is just a reminder to shut out all the noise and really listen deeply to the words Pynchon is saying. Like, say, each word individually, maybe! Is that where I went wrong?! Should this blog be One Word at a Time?!
Ha ha! I was just kidding! I might be stupid but I'm not "your mom" stupid!
"Will you just—"
Merle's simply trying to get Ed Addle to shut the fuck up for once in his stinking life. Which is maybe a good time to ignore this line and talk about Ed Addle. He's Pynchon's prime example of the Æther fandom. One of the non-academic Everymen who come to their theories through non-scientific means. While speaking, they're the smartest guy in the saloon and they can't stand a guy like Roswell Bounce who pipes up to ask them to show their work. These kinds of losers proliferate in Tech Bro and have turned Twitter into a rancid mess (not that I'm on Twitter anymore but I hear things). They're now the sort of guys who spend hours every day discussing their genius with ChatGPT because ChatGPT's number one line of programming is to fellate the user. They're the kind of person who make society better when they're tossed into an insane asylum because most of their "genius" is delusional thinking. But, when you get right down to it, they shouldn't be locked away. They should be hanged.
Ha ha! I was just kidding! I might be violent but I'm not "your mom" violent!
No comments:
Post a Comment