Hope you all ...

[Paolo Cavallo]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Millison" <nopynching at yahoo.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 3:31 AM
Subject: Re: Hope you all ...


> Thanks, Chris, for passing that note along from the
> WRL.
> 
> I'm saddened by the deaths and injuries, and extremely
> grateful that my brother survived so close to the
> World Trade Center. At the same time, I'm not at all
> comfortable with the  jingoistic propaganda that's
> already started to emerge -- Pres. Bush laid it out in
> stark Good v Evil terms in his address to the nation
> this evening (U.S. TV journalists have echoed that
> rhetoric all day), and given the violence that the
> U.S. has committed or condoned, that's a difficult
> position to sustain. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
>  This is a time to stop the violence, in my opinion,
> not to escalate it.

I can only say Amen.

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Paolo Cavallo                 " I am a teacher at heart, and 
                          there are moments in the classroom 
                           when I can hardly hold the joy. "
                                        P. J. Palmer, 1998
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