Sinister Forces

[snappydresser]

"Sonic Youth Suck." -- YOPJ


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
To: "snappydresser" <snappydresser at rogers.com>
Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: Sinister Forces


> "Satan is Boring"--Sonic Youth
>
> On 6/29/05, snappydresser <snappydresser at rogers.com> wrote:
>> From Norman Mailer's review of Peter Lavenda's new political history of 
>> the
>> USA:
>>
>> "Face-to-face with twenty-five years of research gathered from no less 
>> than
>> forty countries, most writers would have looked to come up with any 
>> number
>> of spy, horror, and suspense novels suggested by this trove of material.
>> Peter Levenda, however, tackled it head-on. So, he set himself the
>> near-to-impossible task of pulling together such diverse threads as pop
>> culture, archaeology, anthropology, poetry, religion, the occult, and a 
>> host
>> of government actions overt and hidden. In return, he has produced the 
>> first
>> installment of a thesis that is by turns compelling, cautious, maddening,
>> and intriguing.
>>
>> This book lives with the premise that there is a Satanic undercurrent to
>> American affairs. Since there is a world of clues and indications to 
>> support
>> the thesis, but very little qualifies as hard evidence, the author is
>> enmeshed in a labyrinthine task. Given the bewildering enormity of the
>> subject, one can forgive Sinister Forces its serious faults for in
>> recompense we are offered astonishing coincidences, improbable but 
>> factual
>> interconnections, occasional exposures of buried government history,
>> outright assassinations and inexplicable historic conjunctions that 
>> scream
>> out for explanation where none can be provided. Conspiratorialists will
>> drown in new floods of old forgotten material, rationalists will throw 
>> this
>> book across the room, then get around to picking it up and reading a 
>> little
>> further before they throw it down again in a fury at the uneasy 
>> possibility
>> that the Devil could conceivably also be a part of our ongoing and
>> inexplicable American history.
>>
>> Worse! What if it—as Levenda looks to indicate—it all goes back to the
>> earliest American inhabitants, back to the mysterious mound-building
>> Pre-Columbian cultures of Kentucky up through the Salem witch trials on 
>> to
>> the Twentieth Century mind-control experiments, the obfuscations 
>> surrounding
>> UFOs, and Manson, and Sirhan, and November 22 in Dallas? The first of 
>> these
>> three volumes of Sinister Forces is already ten books in one. Depending 
>> on
>> one's reading inclinations, this is either a disaster or a great 
>> bargain."
>>
>> http://sinisterforces.info/
>>
>> YOPJ
>


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