GR and Nixon

[Paul Mackin]

On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 08:21, Malignd wrote:
> <<"... The same novel now seems uncannily to have
> foreshadowed today's geopolitical landscape, with
> warmongering giant corporations the puppet-masters
> behind nation states and anarchists, ecowarriors and
> third world rebels allied in resisting their
> globalising ambitions and repressive methods.">>
> 
> GR "uncannily" foreshadows nothing.  GR, in part,
> describes the determination of a number of global
> corporations--Standard Oil of NJ, Royal Dutch Shell,
> IG Farben--during the period of WW II to maintain
> relationships that would persist once the war was
> over, knowledge that Pynchon obtained from reading
> Richard Sausuly.  I.e., what it "foreshadows" had
> already happened.

Precisely.

I say a little prayer each night. Lord protect Pynchon from his readers
especially those who write journal papers and books.