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[Jules Siegel]

At 06:48 PM 06/6/97 -0400, "Snow-Balls have flown their Arcs..."
<traveler at afn.org> wrote quoting Jules Siegel:

>>Showing Chrissie and me to our room looking into the forest when we returned
>>from Palm Beach in 1971, Jim Brewster said, "There's no room for jive-ass
>>warriors in the Zone, Jules," and he handed me a machine gun.

>WTF?

>Where do you come up with these things?

>Max

Just my life. I was covering a doper's gang war for Rolling Stone at the
time. I got very deep into the scene. There were times I felt like Isaac
Babel in Red Cavalry. This anecdote was merely an amusing moment. Others
were terror made visible.

I recall it merely to hint at what Pynchon might have been thinking about
when he wrote about The Zone, although I don't know where he would have
gotten the concept -- possibly from Richard Fariña, I guess. I tend to doubt
he'd been in many of these situations himself. I am not critcizing him here
but merely making an observation.

Although Faera was born in a hospital in Greenbrae, she came home to a room
with bullet holes in the door. I still have a photograph Ron Thal took of
her white sating baby  shoes against the splintered panel. 


--Jules Siegel Apdo 1764 Cancun QR 77501
http://www.yucatanweb.com/siegel/jsiegel.htm