pynchon-l-digest V2 #2252

[barbara100 at jps.net]

It's so good to have you back!  Even if just for a day...

I've just come  from seeing Harry Potter. One of the wizards said--the evil
wizard I think--said, "There is no Good or Evil, only Power."  It reminds me
a little of what Pynchon said about power.


Words for Salman Rushdie

The New York Times Book Review
12 March 1989, p. 29
Our thanks to you and to Marianne Wiggins for recalling those of us who
write to our duty as heretics, for reminding us again that power is as much
our sworn enemy as unreason, for making us all look braver, wiser, more
useful than we often think we are. We pray for your continuing good health,
safety and lightness of spirit.

-- By Thomas Pynchon

Copied from the Great Quail's
http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_rushdie.html

Love your site!

----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: pynchon-l-digest V2 #2252


> Thanks, Paul, for providing such a good example of how, with advancing
age,
> people can grow so certain that their convictions -- yours, apparently,
> that this war is inevitable and right and that its critics are inevitably
> wrong -- are beyond question.  Thankfully, I have the opportunity to spend
> a lot of my time with several seniors who remain open to new ideas and who
> welcome discussion and debate of the issues of the day, including this
war.
> Some of them disagree with anti-war views, but, unlike you, they don't
> dismiss out of hand the arguments and information presented by the war's
> critics, nor do they work so hard to discredit the war's critics through
ad
> hominem attack without engaging any of the points offered for discussion,
> as you have consistently done here.  Instead, they take the time to read
> and think about the spectrum of views regarding the war, before accepting
> or rejecting them.
>
> And, thank goodness for online journalism, which is in fact one of the
only
> links to information and opinions about the way that have in fact been
> systematically excluded from the corporate media in the U.S.  Ridicule the
> messenger if you will, but you can't prevent the message from getting
> through.