Sex & the Swastika

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy

Perhaps P just didn't want to give nasty old Nixon the satisfaction of
appearing in his own name....

Mark

--- Paul Mackin <pmackin at clark.net> 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 repealed 200 years ago.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.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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