M&D article

[umberto rossi]

In data 22 Jul 2004, verso le 10:21, jbor si trovò a scrivere su Re: 
M&D article:

> [...]
> Sterloop rifles with five-pointed stars abuse Africans in the Cape of Good
> Hope (101) just as Sterloops effect "the Catastrophick Resolution of
> Inter-Populational Cross-Purposes" in Pennsylvania (342-43) just as
> Sterloops drive Africans to labor in Lord and Lady Lepton's Chesapeake
> Iron-Plantation and to perform in their Ridotto's Slave Orchestra,
> prototype for the musical reception committee at Auschwitz (427-28). 

The critic here is a bright boy, though a bit superficial. It is 
false that the rifles in M&D are all "sterloops", as I have already 
proved. Nobody can deny though that the rifles are very important, 
and that through the symbol of the inverted star P. manages to 
connect, thanks to his unstable textual artifact, English colonialism 
in America and Dutch colonialism in S Africa. Ad for the hint at 
Auschwitz, not bad, though it should be remembered that P. doesn't 
believe that the extemination of the Jews in W.W.2, horrible and 
barely fathomable as it is, is an "unicum", that is an exceptional 
event; he has been telling us, since V., that the Jewish genocide is 
one of--unfortunately--many modern, scientific genocides, starting 
from the extermination of the Hereros and continuing with the tragic 
facts of Rwanda (has anybody heard of Samantha Powers' book on the 
history of genocide?).

> All of which makes moot all questions of whether the provenance of the
> gun is Dutch, as Mason insists, or American, as Dixon claims (428), or
> whether Americans are any more British than the Cape Dutch are Dutch
> (248). [...] (286) 

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's another way to put the question, but 
basically this guy is there.

Could be another way to tell the history of the US: how a bunch of 
Englismen (and women) tried to be something else... and might end up 
speaking Spanish.

umberto rossi
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