Pynchon Japan Playboy

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>>> "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...

The fact that no-one has yet been able to offer a coherent meaning basically
proves MalignD's point, doesn't it -- i.e. that it doesn't make any sense.

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