C-c-cold
Seb Thirlway
supa_kart_hooter at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Dec 8 12:28:20 CST 2006
> Seb:
>
> > Sometimes I wonder how deliberate TRP is - he
> > clearly is extremely thorough, but sometimes it seems TRP
> > just has to start a joke rolling and the weird Pynchonesque
> > world we live in does the rest of the work for him.
>
> "On sidewalks and walls the very first printed slogans start to show up, the
> first Central Asian fuck you signs, the first kill-the-police-commissioner
> signs (and somebody does! this alphabet is really something!)..." (GR 355)
Nice catch! That's always been one of my all-time laugh-out-loud moments in GR.
On the same argument, AtD should be banned in case we all get it into our heads to start blowing
up railways and Vibes (or today's equivalent...). "Ignore it and it'll go away" is the dominant
political approach at the moment; reminds me of one review of AtD which was equivocal about TRP's
tendency to leave absolutely nothing out - a virtue in this case.
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