"El corrido de Osama" & P's outlaws

[Richard Romeo]

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>No, I'm not a bin Laden supporter, but I find it interesting the way he now 
> >seems to be entering international folklore as a sort of bandit outlaw 
> >brave enough to stand up against the American government.  Looks as if 
>the >U.S. government is losing the battle for hearts and minds, for sure. 
>And, >it might conceiveably be interesting to talk about this in the 
>context of >what P has had to say about outlaws, in his novels and in his 
>introductory >essay for the UK edition of _Stone Junction_.  I'm drawing no 
>conclusions >at this point about how bin Laden might or might not fit into 
>P's concept >of the outlaw.
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seems to me, Doug that bin laden is far from such "good" bad-asses as 
depicted by Pynchon in the _SJ_ intro.  besides being a religious fanatic, a 
racist, political opportunist, he also exhibits the classic meglo-mania like 
Hitler, willing to bring down a whole culture for whatever half-baked 
reason, including himself. what past sins is he fighting for?  from the 
crusades.  the man and his movement is pathetic.

can't see how anyone would support the man

Rich
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