What are we reading lately

[Paul Mackin]

On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 04:10, umberto rossi wrote:
> In
> 
> Muntzer's theology was strongly anti-authoritarian. There is a 
> wonderful philosophical essay about it by a heretic Marxist 
> philosopher, whose surname is Bloch but whose name I can't remember 
> (Marc comes to my mind, but that's the French historian, not the 
> German philosopher). The title of the essay is Das Prinzip Hoffnung 
> or something like that. Or was it Thomas Muntzer &c.? My god, what a 
> Dickian memory!


His first name was Ernst.

One other thing about the novel Q that might have some Pynchonian
interest: the story is told in no small respect in an epistolary
fashion, so that the existence of an efficient Thurn and Taxis operation
must be assumed, although there is never (so far in my reading) any
explicit mention of the location of post offices or the price of postage
stamps. People simply write letters and expect them to be delivered.
They might as well have had email.