filth of capitalism

[barbara100 at jps.net]

You're just trying to goad me with your slashes (/), old man.  You know full
fucking well...

But anyway, what do you think our Author would have to say about this:

"This is what he has learned: "The problems didn't start with September 11
or even with the war in Kuwait or Palestine," he says. "It started with
colonialism. You came in, took our resources, made our people into slaves.
You imposed borders on us which we didn't want, regimes which we didn't
want. You planted dictators, kings, against our will.'"

In case you don't recognize it, it's from the Washington Post article you
posted.  Wouldn't this colonialist idea be a big theme in M&D?  I haven't
even read it yet, but from the looks of GR on colonialism, I can only
imagine.  Anybody have a quote from M&D that would support this young
budding terrorist's sentiment?

"[...]....Oh, no. Colonies are much, much more.  Colonies are the outhouses
of the European soul, where a fellow can let his pants down and relax, enjoy
the smell of his own shit.  Where he can fall on his slender prey roaring as
loud as he feels like, and guzzle her blood with open joy. Eh?  Where he can
just wallow and rut and let himself go in a softness, a receptive darkness
of limbs, of hair as wooly as the hair on his own forbidden genitals.  Where
the poppy, and cannabis and coca grow full and green, and not to the colors
and style of death, as do ergot and agaric, the blight and fungus native to
Europe.  Christian Europe was always death, Karl, death and repression. Out
and down in the colonies, life can be indulged, life and sensuality in all
its forms, with no harm done to the Metropolis, nothing to soil those
cathedrals, white marble statues, noble thoughts....No word ever gets back.
The silences down here are  vast enough to absorb all behavior, no matter
how dirty, how animal it gets...."  (GR 369)

The "dusky natives" aren't so silent now, eh?



----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 10:32 AM
Subject: filth of capitalism


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