NP police kill protester in Genoa - eyewitness account

[Paul Mackin]

Terrance and I are completely together on this. Excuse what may have seemed
like hardhearted satire but in light of the attention given in these pages
lately to the Watts piece the point needed making as forcefully  as
possible.
        P.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terrance" <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
To: "Paul Mackin" <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 12:49 PM
Subject: Re: NP police kill protester in Genoa - eyewitness account


>
>
> Paul Mackin wrote:
> >
> > > The protesters threw rocks; a policeman fired a gun at a protester
armed
> > > with a fire extinguisher.
> >
> > "Far from a sickness, violence may be an attempt to communicate, or to
be
> > who you really are." --Thomas Pynchon, 1966,  still under 30 (slightly)
and
> > trustable.
>
> Yeah, well it makes for wonderful fiction and pretty poor
> journalism.
> Pynchon doesn't seem to know what the hell he is talking
> about. The little bit on virility is very naive and if
> written today could be considered racist, but of course we
> know his heart is in the right place anyway.
>