Pynchon Japan Playboy

[Ghetta Life]

>From: MalignD at aol.com
>
<<"America always looks for an enemy. The country cannot feel O.K. without 
it. It has labeled Bin Laden as the bad guy who commanded the terrorist 
attacks from behind the scenes, only because we couldn't feel O.K. unless we 
made him. But I think Bin Laden is just somebody's rodeo clown.">>
> >
>For those who insist that Pynchon said it, they might consider that the 
>above doesn't make any sense.   A rodeo clown is someone who diverts the 
>bull from a fallen rider, not a strawman bad guy.
>

It could make SOME sense if we were to think of public attention as the bull 
and the cowboy as the "truth" the bull seeks, but the clown as the diversion 
thrown in to divert public attention...

Ghetta

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