Zone/911 - 17 October 2001

[Doug Millison]

Zone/911 - Pynchonian Echoes in the Current Situation - 17 October 2001

Drawing a line between movies and reality...return to Cold War nuclear
confrontation...the Marvy Syndrome...a-and a rainbow...

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Why not blame Hollywood?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/film/newsid_1604000/1604151.stm

"[...] Veteran film director Robert Altman has blamed Hollywood for
"inspiring" the recent attacks on the US.

"Nobody would have thought to commit an atrocity like that unless they'd
seen it in a movie," said Altman, who also directed MASH and The Player.

Violent blockbusters "taught them how to do it" and Hollywood must now stop
showing mass destruction in movies, he said. [...]


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Will the Bush attack on Afghanistan destablize the two regional nuclear
powers and leave U.S. spectators  waiting for "that last delta-t" they way
they did when the US and USSR came to the brink of nuclear armageddon in
the 1960s as Pynchon was writing V., then Gravity's Rainbow?

http://atimes.com/ind-pak/CJ18Df02.html

October 18, 2001
Return of Cold War rivalries
By Ranjit Devraj
NEW DELHI - Shades of the Cold War have returned to the subcontinent as
India deepened defense ties with Moscow, even as United States Secretary of
State Colin Powell held consultations in Islamabad and New Delhi on a
post-Taliban dispensation in Afghanistan. [...]  Klebanov announced that
Russia expected to sign an agreement next month to lease to India four
TU-22 bombers which are capable of carrying nuclear warheads. However, he
refused to answer questions on whether Russia planned to also lease a
nuclear submarine to India in the same way that the former Soviet Union
had. Last year, India signed a deal with Russia to buy US$3 billion worth
of military hardware, including SU-30 fighters, T-90 tanks and the aircraft
carrier, Admiral Gorshkov, reminiscent of the close military ties between
New Delhi and Moscow during the Cold War years.
India supported the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan during the 1908s and
has continued to provide aid to the Northern Alliance, while Pakistan
backed the Taliban militarily until the September 11 terrorist attacks on
the US. [...]


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The Marvy Syndrome - no clear evidence, yet, to tie this one to bin Laden

http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20010314tammytommy6.asp

"A Butler County transsexual has been accused of killing her husband, a
drug addict who died less than two days after she castrated him in a
makeshift operating room in their rural trailer. [...] "


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Rainbow micraculously appears at "Ground Zero",  extended arc leads to site
of civilian casualities in Afghanistan

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20011016/capt.1003259768attacks_trade_
center_xejb102.jpg




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