The Lolita function? (voice from the trailer park)

[Gregory L Roth]

>Oh, speaking of the Pokler/Peenemunde/Dora, am I the only person on the
>list that thinks all the press of the recent weeks past (pics of Dora on
>60 minutes, etc.) was more about a sympathetic media to a lawsuit than
>any attempt at truth?  Just trying not to ask the wrong questions.


*I was fascinated with the coverage of these events, especially the
actual 
*footage and fotos of the tunnels, etc., but I am not quite sure what you

*meant here (as quoted above).

 *You're saying that the media has been overly sympathetic to the 
*lawsuits? What makes you come to such a conclusion? 


Yeah, maybe "Attempt at truth," was a poor choice of words.  I too
enjoyed the images of the tunnels etc.- I'm thinking of the Stevie Wonder
song "Living Just Enough for the City," you know, where the kid gets off
the bus.  "Yeah... New York... jest as I picher'd it."  Ever heard it? 
Literally, I felt like I had been there before, so powerful were the
descriptions evoked in GR.  If divorced from context, there is always
truth in the image.  I remember a few years back; we had us a little
flood here in the hills of East Tennessee.  The creek rose up and washed
away a mobile home.  Man we made the national news; we were a disaster
area.  It looked like on TV that half the state had been wiped of the
face of the earth.  Now it was really a temptation for me to assert as
the truth: nothing happened, the creek rose up and swept away a piece of
shit trailer that some dumb ass had put overly close to the creek- you
can send the disaster aid though.  It would have been a mistake.  Remove
the context, and look at the picture.  There was a flood, and it messed
up a man's property.  That's the truth.  Sure, when you saw it in person,
a small wet scar among the expanse of unscathed green hills, it would be
easy to claim the whole thing was a scope-less lie.  Nope, the image was
the plain truth.  I've been reading a lot about WWII recently, Shire,
Toland... a biography of FDR, one about Churchill... does GR count?  God,
it was such a time of suffering, for everybody- from Dresden to the
ovens, definitely an easy time to become toast.  So here I am in my
intellectually isolated, redneck, blue-collar little world.  I try to
talk to the school kids in my neighborhood; the neighbor boy has just
finished WWII in history class.  "Did you know Hitler tried to turn the
Jew's eyes blue?"  That's about all he has to say about the whole piece
of history.  No Stalin, no 19 million Russians meeting a fate similar to
the more famous six, no A-bomb.  Why is that?  Ok, he's a pot smoking ass
dumb dork that hates school, and hey, this is Knoxville, but still! 
Unpopular as it is to say except here in the ol' trailer park, I feel
like the entire history of WWII is being distilled down and encapsulated
into the Jewish experience, the holocaust.   The old question: does news
create the interest, or does interest create the news?  Oh yeah right,
what happens creates the news... I forgot- it's the moonshine you know. 
Maybe Volkswagen owes out some back wages; I can hang with that, and in
WWII Nazi Germany, slave labor was the truth.  Divide up the whole damn
business and hand it out; folks suffered and should be compensated, and
if money from Volkswagen helps, let it help.  I'll get parts for my
Beetle from Mexico.  In light of how the National Socialist economy was
set up, I'm going to start digging in my heels and asking myself some
serious questions about what's going on when folks start reaching into
Ford and GM's pockets though.  And when it couples so with a media blitz?
 It sure begins to appear to be about money and whose got the deep
pockets.  Truth is not negated, but don't you think it is cheapen?  As is
alluded to in GR, I believe international power caused WWII.  The
bogeymen did it man.  The bogeymen are still doing it.  We think it's
peace and safety; protection from terrorism, security from unwanted
immigration, prohibition against money laundering, battling against
illicit drugs, prevention of disease and poverty, the wealth of
federalized education, dealing with y2k, we want it.  We're getting it,
and as long as we can spend our allotted scrip and have some wheels to
stink up the place, we're happy with it.  The media is zooming in. 
Education is zooming in.  Popular culture is zooming in.  I don't think
anybody is zooming out.  It is very much not popular to zoom out. 
Damn... if we could just get Pat Robinson to embrace abortion.  Maybe
when they catch that Rudolph boy.

John thanks for writing man.

Hmm, I wonder what a book from Lolita's perspective would be like?  She
was a dull little girl in many ways, but not without a certain
cleverness.  I'd read it.

Greg...