TPPM (9): "Sloth as Primarily Political"

[Dave Monroe]

   "In this century we have come to think of Sloth as
primarily political, a failure of public will allowing
the introduction of evil policies and the rise of evil
regimes, the worldwide fascist ascendancy of the
1920's and 30's being perhaps Sloth's finest hour,
though the Vietnam era and the Reagan-Bush years are
not far behind...." 

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-sloth.html

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_sloth.html

http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/sloth.html

http://www.vheissu.org/bio/eng_sloth.htm


"Sloth as primarly political"

"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty—-power is
ever stealing from the many to the few.... The hand
entrusted with power becomes ... the necessary enemy
of the people. Only by continual oversight can the
democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a
despot: only by unintermitted Agitation can a people
be kept sufficiently awake to principle not to let
liberty be smothered in material prosperity."

WENDELL PHILLIPS, speech in Boston, Massachusetts,
January 28, 1852.—Speeches Before the Massachusetts
Anti-Slavery Society, p. 13 (1853).

http://www.bartleby.com/73/1073.html


"a failure of public will"

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/

http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/election04/


"the worldwide fascist ascendancy"

http://www.harpercollins.com/global_scripts/product_catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=0060930217

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_gr.html

http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/v/index.html

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/v/


"Sloth's finest hour"

Kennedy, John F.  Why England Slept.
   New York: W. Funk, Inc., 1940.

http://info.greenwood.com/books/0313228/0313228744.html


"the Vietnam era"

http://us.penguinclassics.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,10_0140188592,00.html

http://www.penguinputnam.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0140188592,00.html

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_gr.html

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/index.html


"the Reagan-Bush years"

http://us.penguinclassics.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,10_0141180633,00.html

http://www.penguinputnam.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0141180633,00.html

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_vineland.html

http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/


		
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