distant fireworks

[Richard Romeo]

>
>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
>
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two things re: July 4th--while checking out the fw from my roof, one lady 
said excitedly:  "It's just like war."

the other was learning of American POWs during the revolution, being sent by 
the British to a ship anchored off the "LI" shore to basically starve or 
perish from disease.  These so-called prison ships and those who died are 
commemorated with an obelisk in Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn. If only we 
knew more about the latter, than the mediated corporate mongering that 7/4 
represents.  In fact, my buddy and I were musing on which corporate logo 
will first appear within the FW patterns.

Rich


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