distant fireworks

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

VL.267

"the smell of distant fireworks, the spilled, the broken
world."

With each passing year, as U.S. citizens sleep with
Television providing the stuff their dreams are made on,
like children too excited by the bangs and bursts of rocket
celebrations, a public ignorant, apathetic, and  generally
complacent, gazes with a false nostalgia at the trivialized
memory of a Revolution, while its Executive subverts
constitutional balance, exerting force in over 70 foreign
conflicts, and writs of habeas corpus are suspended by state
governments. This is one of the things Pynchon hopes we will
pay attention too--the smell of Distant fireworks.

Terrance