CIA & Nobel Prize

davemarc davemarc at panix.com
Mon Nov 29 14:58:03 CST 1999


> From: MalignD <slothrop666 at yahoo.com>
> 
> Given Pynchon's trashing of the CIA in GR and
> elsewhere, one wonders if that institution might have
> anything to do with his perennial passing-over for the
> prize:
> 
But don't you see?  It's all part of Pynchon's plan to distract the CIA
while the likes of Fo, Saramago, and Garcia Marquez sneakily amass their
own ouevres and win the Prize, accumulating enough prestige to demolish the
CIA and the entire Capitalist world it controls (except when it screws up).
 Pynchon was pretty subtle about this plot until he wrote a positive review
of a Garcia Marquez novel.  Almost blew the whole operation. But by then it
was too late, and the CIA was powerless to turn back the clock.  

Thanks, slothrop666, for a reminder of just how simplistic polemics can be.
 That review is so removed from reality that it may in itself qualify as
Abstract Expressionism.  Hey, wait a minute...maybe that review, like the
Abstract Expressionist movement, was funded by the CIA in order to
discredit anything expressing an even remotely Communist point-of-view. 
But wait a minute...weren't some of the roots of "AE" established under
Communism or by Communist types themselves?  Egad.

d. 



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