pynchon-l-digest V2 #2734

[Doug Millison]

jbor:
>I'd hate to
>think what Saddam or Osama might do given access to a nuclear arsenal.

They've got you asking the wrong questions. I'd hate to see what the US,
might do (again) with its nuclear arsenal, and tactical plans to use same
in a regional conflict, and it biological/chemical weapons (again).  The PR
spin would focus folks on the wrong rogue state,  but not everybody has
access to Fox, thank goodness.


"s~Z"
>...and what is it that underlies commerce, capitalism, and Western
>Christianity?


Irrational fear of the Other, willingness to exploit or obliterate same,



s~Z:
>I seriously doubt that trees are burdened with a sense of separate
>individual consciousness and ownership thereof.


"He woke to rain coming down in sheets, the smell of redwood trees in the
rain through the open bus windows, tunnels of unbelievably tall straight
red trees whose tops could not be seen pressing in to either side. Prairie
had been watching them all the time and in a very quiet voice talking to
them as they passed one by one. It seemed now and then as if she were
responding to something she was hearing, and in rather a matter-of-fact
tone of voice for a baby, too, as if this were a return for her to a world
behind the world she had known all along."
Vineland p. 315


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