Fw:WRL on Attacks, some thoughts on day 1

[Jasper Fidget]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nika Bertram" <ame16 at uni-koeln.de>
To: "Jasper Fidget" <fakename at tokyo.com>
Cc: "Pynchon List" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: Fw:WRL on Attacks, some thoughts on day 1

> ...

> indymedia has some reports that those videos were actually re-used by cnn
> from 1991, so one should at least perhaps doubt their credibility

I'm very interested in the veracity of this--do you have any corroborating
references?  indymedia is a bit too biased a collective to take seriously.

> this is no fucking playstation game. wake up.

No, it's not a game--what made you think it had anything to do with one?

> yeah. life's what you make it..
>
> > "I am the Sword of God, come to give you judgement."  --Hulagu Khan to
> > Baghdad
>
> oops. forgot religion. of course it'll be a "holy war", "good against
> evil", as bush said.
>

Yes, it will; or perhaps an anti-holy war if you prefer.  I'm not sure it's
possible to fight a wholly secular war.

> couldn't someone just switch this sims-game into pause-mode here, so that
> we can all take some time to clear things up, get some new furniture, and
> perhaps watch re-runnings of south parks "longer, bigger and uncut"
> instead of going out killing people? thx
>
> nika
>
>

You seem saturated by popular culture; please don't project it onto the rest
of us, or--bizarrely--employ it to contain serious things.