AC

[David Kipen]

For further reading on anarchists, you might check out 'Murdered by
Capitalism' from John Ross -- blurbed by a certain writer who shall remain
faceless. Also, for anarchism [and a lot more] between the years 1893 and
1914, you could do a lot worse than the chapter on same in Barbara Tuchman's
'The Proud Tower'...

the scavenger hunt continues,
david kipen


On 8/16/06, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That looks alot like Adams' dynamo:
>
> From Entropy:
>
> Henry Adams, three generations before his own, had stared aghast at
> Power; Callisto found himself now in much the same state over
> Thermodynamics, the inner life of that power, realizing like his
> predecessor that the Virgin and the dynamo stand as much for love as
> for power; that the two are indeed identical; and that love therefore
> not only makes the world go round but also makes the boccie ball spin,
> the nebula precess. (pp.84-85)
>
>
> On 8/16/06, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
> > 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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