NP voice of the lonely crowd

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hahaha
thank you for showing me that badly put together piece of work there. it was 
rather funny.

>From: "Otto" <o.sell at telda.net>
>To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: NP voice of the lonely crowd
>Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 13:24:11 +0200
>
>The voice of the lonely crowd
>"After September 11, writing fiction seemed a pointlessly indulgent
>exercise.
>But, Martin Amis argues, against the deadly excesses of politics and
>religion, the novel is a supremely rational undertaking."
>Saturday June 1, 2002, The Guardian
>
>"September 11 was a day of de-Enlightenment. Politics stood revealed as a
>veritable Walpurgis Night of the irrational.
>(...)
>The 20th century, with its scores of millions of supernumerary dead, has
>been called the age of ideology. And the age of ideology, clearly, was a
>mere hiatus in the age of religion, which shows no sign of expiry. Since it
>is no longer permissible to disparage any single faith or creed, let us
>start disparaging all of them. To be clear: an ideology is a belief system
>with an inadequate basis in reality; a religion is a belief system with no
>basis in reality whatever. Religious belief is without reason and without
>dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful. It is
>straightforward - and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if 
>God
>existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us
>religion.
>(...)
>The champions of militant Islam are, of course, misogynists, woman-haters;
>they are also misologists - haters of reason. Their armed doctrine is 
>little
>more than a chaotic penal code underscored by impotent dreams of genocide.
>And, like all religions, it is a massive agglutination of stock response, 
>of
>cliches, of inherited and unexamined formulations. This is the thrust of 
>the
>greatest novel ever written, Ulysses, in which Joyce identifies Roman
>Catholicism, and anti-semitism, as fossilisations of dead prose and dead
>thought."
>http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,725608,00.html
>
>The whole article is worth a read.
>
>Otto





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