Source material for Gravity's Rainbow?

Otto o.sell at telda.net
Tue Dec 18 04:26:01 CST 2001


Toby G Levy:
Source material for Gravity's Rainbow?
>   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."
>

Nice discovery. It says nothing about right or left conspiracy theories but
gives a good description of  "The Other Kingdom" as presented in GR.

Otto







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