Pynchon, Coetzee, "the Holocaust as metaphor" and more

[Paul Mackin]

On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 11:12, Malignd wrote: 

(omission)
> 
> And this reminded me of the discussion here about TP's
> Orwell Introduction, that, if he was speaking
> specifically of September 11 and George W. Bush's
> policies, as was claimed, why was his argument so
> allusive?


Its a well known fact that Pynchon must speak in a secret code
understood only by p-listers (and not even all of these) else his life
wouldn't be worth two cents at the hands of high placed sinister forces.



But seriously here's something Joan Didion isn't afraid to say
non-allusively in the same issue of NYRB as the review of the Coetzee
book.

 According to Christopher Andersen's George and Laura: Portrait of an
American Marriage, he once in a Mexican restaurant in Dallas launched a
rabid attack on Al Hunt, the Washington bureau chief of The Wall Street
Journal, colliding with other diners as he made his way to the table
where Hunt was sitting with his wife, the television correspondent Judy
Woodruff, and their four-year-old son. When he reached the Hunts,
"red-faced" and "clearly intoxicated," he pointed a finger and began
shouting.
"You no good fucking son of a bitch!" George W. screamed while other
diners looked on in shock. "I will never fucking forget what you wrote!"
For the next minute or so, W. stayed at the table, continuing his
diatribe against the story [a story about the 1988 campaign in which
Hunt had been quoted] in the Washingtonian. But Hunt could not imagine
what could have provoked such rage. He had not even mentioned the elder
Bush in the Washingtonian article, much less criticized him. With that,
W. weaved his way through the restaurant and out to the parking lot.



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