SLSL Intro "The Way of Communication"

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on 11/5/02 11:58 PM, barbara100 at jps.net at barbara100 at jps.net wrote:

>> The divide between Pynchon and Chomsky is as wide, if not wider, than the
>> divide between Pynchon and Bush, imo.
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> What do you think, Doug? I kinda get the feeling all the writers--Pynchon,
> Kerouac, Bellow, Roth--would really dig Chomsky.  I mean, all the smart
> people I know--English and Art professors--I snoop at the books on their
> shelves and they all have Herzog, On the Road, Gravity's Rainbow, and
> Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent.  My gut feeling tells me Pynchon loves
> Chomsky.  I never understood the Chomsky hatred around here.  Some seem to
> hate him as much as they hate you, Doug. I never understood that either.
> Maybe Chomsky's just a little too polite too?
> Happy Voting!
> (Damn, I just realized I forgot to check my ballot card for hanging chads! )
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>
> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 3:02 PM
> Subject: Re: SLSL Intro "The Way of Communication"
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"The U.S. seeks to create a form of top down democracy that leaves
traditional structures of power -basically corporations and their allies- in
effective control......A society can have the formal trappings of democracy
and not be democratic at all. The Soviet Union had elections."
                                                  Noam Chomsky
                                                  Secrets,Lies,and Democracy

Makes sense to me. Sounds up TRP's alley.