NP Grab him! He's got an Almanac!

[MdShrk1]

DeLillo did draw the comparison between creating fiction and terrorism in
"Mao II."

p. 41

"There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists. In the West we
become famous effigies as our books lose the power to shape and influence.
Do you ask your writers how they feel about this? Years ago I used to think
it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now
bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human
conciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated."

It seems to me that we are not that far away from "Farenheit 451," as well.
How long will it be before the book burnings begin?

Tim Mooney


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Bandwraith at aol.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 5:51 AM
Subject: NP Grab him! He's got an Almanac!


> The next generation of novelists figuring to follow in the footsteps
> of Pynchon might have more than critics and a non-reading public
> to contend with- doing research might become a dangerous activity.
>
> http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2003/12/29/fbi/index.html
>
> Didn't someone recently compare creating fiction with being a terrorist?
> DeLillo?
>
> Certainly Oedipa learned to become paranoid about digging too
> deeply for the facts. But she was a fictional character, no?
>
> respectfully
>
>