Foreword "Goofy Mustaches"

Paul Mackin paul.mackin at verizon.net
Fri Apr 25 10:16:32 CDT 2003


On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 10:49, Malignd wrote:
> <<... most notably the Internet, a development that
> promises social control on a scale those quaint old
> twentieth-century tyrants with their goofy mustaches
> could only dream about.">>
> 
> So Pynchon sees the Internet not as the life-enhancing
> technology most of us find it to be, but rather as a
> method for government control. 
> 
> The great man is apparently aging into a paranoid
> crank.

I was wondering when someone would notice that.

However the forward is interesting in certain way that I've tried to
point out.

P.




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