Source material for Gravity's Rainbow?

[Paul Mackin]

Correction. The article  I referred to is labelled "conspiracy theory and
the right"  but is about c.t. on both the left and the right. Sorry.

            P.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Mackin" <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 5:02 PM
Subject: Re: Source material for Gravity's Rainbow?


> Yes the left can be every bit as conspiracy hungry as the right. Also
> sometimes the left conspiracy theorist will shift alligiance and become a
> right conpiracy theorist. It's not as hard as it looks.An example seems to
> have been Mark Lane who in the later years got involved with the Liberty
> Lobby. (this was discussed here earlier) For an article on conspiracy on
the
> left see below. Note that Pacifica Radio listeners may want to view this
> with caution.  Hate to make reference to anything appearing on the
Internet
> but this time will make an exception.
>
> P.
>
>  http://www.publiceye.org/rightwoo/rwooz6-02.html
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Wright AIA" <mwaia at yahoo.com>
> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 2:13 PM
> Subject: Re: Source material for Gravity's Rainbow?
>
>
> > Howdy
> > Hofstadter is certainly relevant to all of P's work, if it doesn't need
> > to be cited as an actual 'source'. His particular critique examined
> > populist right-wing paranoia. The "paranoid style" also infects the
> > Left, perhaps even more than the Right in these latter days...
> > Mark
> >
> > --- Toby G Levy <tobylevy at juno.com> wrote:
> > >   Historian Richard Hofstadter in "The Paranoid Style in American
> > >    Politics" [1965] says that the political paranoid views history as
> > > a
> > >    conspiracy "set in motion by demonic forces of almost transcendent
> > >    power."
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