libertarian mag compares Beltway sniper to Pynchon

[pynchonoid]

"[...] My own baseless theory is that the murders were
committed by a mad postmodernist. The sniper certainly
seems more self-aware than earlier serial killers, and
it has been widely suggested that he or she delights
in undermining the police theory of the moment with
each new target. If you want to foster suspicion of
master narratives, you could do no better job than the
killer has; he seems eager to do to criminologists
what Burroughs and Pynchon did to literary critics.
The Saturday slaying fits this there-is-no-pattern
pattern, coming after much speculation that the perp
avoids crime on weekends. Yet the drive to find
patterns persists. [...]" 

Reason Online re the Beltway sniper hunt
http://reason.com/links/links102202.shtml


enjoy,

"pynchonoid"








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