pynchon-l-digest V2 #2096

[Phil Wise]

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Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 6:15 AM
Subject: Re: pynchon-l-digest V2 #2096


> Dear Otto,
> Great post. Your take on politician's denying things is all too often
exactly
> the situation. Who among them is not the opportunist? When the NPR
> commentator said that after 9-11 that Congress was in a rush to pass laws
> which the American people would feel (not believe, mind you) helped the
> situation, I cynically told my beautiful wife, "So, that's news? Isn't
that
> what they always do?"  At least I can say that without fear of the organs
of
> state security a/k/a Office of Homeland Security Why does that sound
> so...well, apartheid era South African? At least, for now.
>
> Bonus bulletin-for all those who think we males don't examine our thought
> processes critically:
> The
> LAT goes inside to report on another post-911 upswing,
> especially among Manhattanites: "terror sex." The story
> quotes one man who exemplifies the trend: "'What's sick is
> that on the day that it happened, I watched the towers
> crumble, and then I'm walking north, really freaked out, but
> I was noticing more women than I ever do,' said an unmarried
> Manhattan record executive in his 30s who contacted several
> women he was dating casually, all of whom he has had sex with
> since the attacks. 'Usually there are girls where you say
> she's not my type. Everything was my type all of a sudden.'"
>
> TTFN,

His name wasn't Tyrone, at all, was it?

phil

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