Sex & the Swastika

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

Paul Mackin wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, rj wrote:
> > I do still think
> > though that calling Nixon Nixon wouldn't have been a wise move,
> > legally-speaking, but it's very very clear who Zhlubb is *meant* to be.
> > Pynchon is pretty fearless when it comes to naming names I think,
> 
> Hard to conceive of any American writer having legal problems over
> anything he might say about a President. Don't threaten to kill
> one but otherwise anything goes. The Alien and Sedition Acts were
> repealed 200 years ago. Think of the things that were written about
> Kennedy and Johnson. Anyone remember Barbara Garson's Shakespearean satire
> "MacBird"? And in civil law I always thought public figures couldn't be
> the subject of libel. I'm probably not being accurate in the way I'm
> stating this but it's on that order. Presidential candidates say worse
> things about each other than P says about Nixon.
> 
>                         P.


Not a lawyer, not a rocket scientist, well, those that
can't.... I think you are right here Paul and I think rj is
right too, Pynchon's not afraid to name names. Or is he? Why
change Nixon to Zhlubb? Is Nixon in GR not simply Nixon?
Turn up the reverb on those tapes Henry, I can't here the
echoes.