1984

[barbara100 at jps.net]

What's so self-righteous about it? A series of (real) events, a couple of
quote marks for emphasis, a little sarcasm with "our *shining* example," but
hardly self-righteous.
Maybe we could flip the question: How come you're not fucking outraged too?



----- Original Message -----
From: "s~Z" <keithsz at concentric.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Re: 1984


> >>>Yes, that long. More than a year since we "liberated"
> Afghanistan, enough time for a new opium crop to come
> in and for the warlords to reestablish control and
> recommence the civil war outside Kabul, our shining
> example for Iraq.<<<
>
> Dude. Calm down. Getting all self-righteous on a fiction-writer's
discussion
> list just isn't a powerful political act. Most of us here need that crop
for
> our masses.
>