theater of terrorism: follow the bouncing ball
pynchonoid
pynchonoid at yahoo.com
Thu Oct 24 19:11:47 CDT 2002
--- pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The final page of GR, waiting for the missile to
> drop
> in the movie theater, has come to mind several times
> today, prompted by news reports of the unfortunate
hostages in that Moscow theater (I meant to write the
first time).
> It's the double whammy: anxiety sparked by the fear
> of being the victim of a terrorist attack somewhere
> along the path through daily life, we remain
> hostages
> of the Bomb (and the government that chooses to use
> it
> as a threat) as we watch a pornography of "life"
> spool
> out on the screen of that Cartesian theater (next
> door
> to the Man's branch office in each of our brains,
> perhaps). Reach out and touch the person next to
> you,
> Pynchon's advice still serves.
>
>
>
> http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=19763
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