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robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Wed Aug 16 16:46:29 CDT 2006
Hmmmmmmm . . .
So I run across my friend Carlos, somebody I know from Food Not Bombs, the sort of Left-Wing operation akin to the Diggers, a group that gives away the overspill to the underclass and otherwise are the robed preisthood of the litany of Robin Hood. He's at this cafe that I'm rarely in, since swearing off coffee (I was in for a mocha). So, anyway, Carlos Fierro:
http://www.fresnoundercurrent.net/
http://www.fresnofamous.com/node/3496
http://www.fresnofamous.com/node/3496
http://www.fresnobee.com/local/story/12579758p-13288254c.html
has been in this local controversy, and has this paper "The Undercurrent", and it's the kind of controversy that could easily slip into a Pynchon Novel. And the controversy has to do with a Local Pastor talking about the necessity of nuking the muslims in our current holy war. Anyway, I show him about "Against The Day", and how I've been thinking of anarchy being the big backstory in all of Pynchon's novels, he sees "Chicago World's Fair, 1893", and the first word out of his mouth is "Haymarket". I looked that up, and he's wrong about that (1886), but typing in "Chicago World's Fair 1893" got me:
but http://www.neuronet.pitt.edu/~bogdan/tesla/chicago.htm
which is very interesting, as Tesla is on the author's itinerary and AC means so very much to us all.
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