DeLillo's Down Under

[Byrnes Weir]

At 11:35 AM 12/19/96 -0700, Steelhead wrote:
>Don DeLillo's been coasting since his great novels of the 1970s, when he
>began to encroach on Pynchon's terrain--who had stopped publishing to play
>the part of Tom Pinecone to his fellow vagabonds in the Valley--with
>wonderful paragraphs of writing such as this one from the sadly neglected
>Great Jones Street:
>
>"The presidents and prime ministers are the ones who make the underground
>deals speak the true underground idiom. The corporations. The military. The
>banks. This is the underground network. This is where it happens. Power
>flows under the surface, far beneath the level you and I live on. This is
>where the laws are broken, way down under, far beneath the speed freaks and
>cutters of smack."
>
>Steelhead
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>
>
    Fabulous quote to pass along the loway...

               Byrnes