Pynchon Japan Playboy

MalignD at aol.com MalignD at aol.com
Sat Jan 31 11:50:42 CST 2004


> <<"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.


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