re Amerikaka (NP?)

[Jasper Fidget]

Oh, I see now.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry Musikar" <scuffling at hotmail.com>
To: "Pynchon List" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: re Amerikaka (NP?)


> I love my country, but I am not so provincial in time or space as to
believe
> that the world changed on September 11; if it did, then it changes
> CONTINUOUSLY. The world changed when the US pulled out of Vietnam in
defeat.
> The world changed 200 people were killed by indiscriminate Taliban
shelling
> during the war with the USSR. Wait a minute, the world didn't change for
me
> when that happened. I didn't even hear about it. But the world did change
> when Pearl Harbor was bombed, leading to extraordinary times that included
> the internment of innocent citizens in the US. Not that that could ever
> happen again; that bit of history is no longer relevant!We live in a time
of
> crusades and, potentially, plague. Whole cities may be destroyed.
> Unprecedented!
>
> Paul Mackin, I'd like to hear from you on this subject, as you possess a
> viewpoint that may be unique on this list. :-)