"fascistic disposition" paragraph
Terrance
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Thu May 15 17:18:49 CDT 2003
jbor wrote:
>
> on 15/5/03 10:21 PM, Malignd at malignd at yahoo.com wrote:
>
> >
> > To read Pynchon as using falling bombs as a metaphor
> > for terrorism is to grant him a rather ham-fisted
> > poetics.
It's fairly obvious that we have beaten this horse into a spare tire and
few hundred jars of Elmer's glue. Do I need to remind the New Yorkers on
this List what it was that was falling on our homeland that day? It was
bodies. Bodies were falling. ANd then buildings were falling. Big
buildings. And when they fell, well i can't say for sure since I've
never been in a Blitz or a bombing or a war for that matter, it sure as
hell felt like and looked like what I have always imagined a bombing to
be. The altered landscape and skyscrape still makes me cringe. I still
look for them. I still hope against hope that some little fellow is
gonna pop out the zeroed ground and say, "got any gum, chum." Now if I'm
a fascist for hoping that Geroge W. Bush killes Osama, well, I guess I'm
a fascist.
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