"fascistic disposition" paragraph

[Malignd]

<<I think you're being too generous. The argument that
Pynchon would sacrifice clarity for poetry in making a
reference to 9/11 is patently absurd.>>

I think you misunderstand. I'm conceding the point
that your substitute might lack poetry not that
Pynchon's referring specifically to 9/11.  
Whatever poetry might be lacking in your substitute,
what is actually there doesn't work poetically at all;
it conjures images that don't fit.  No one's nightmare
of 9/11 is likely to be of bombs falling.  

A large part of the terror of 9/11 and of terrorism in
general is that legitimate air forces bearing loads of
tactical bombs are not necessary.  Looking for them is
likely to lead one to look in the wrong direction.

To read Pynchon as using falling bombs as a metaphor
for terrorism is to grant him a rather ham-fisted
poetics. 
  



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