Cornell campus // Telluride House

[Michael Bailey]

On 3/2/06, Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> I guess I made the suggestion on account of the old saying 'know thy
> enemy.'
>

Yes, likewise I was being a little facetious...the likelihood of me
walking past Telluride House, or even eating lunch there, and then
being recruited for bloodthirsty imperialism is about on a par with my
being tapped for Skull and Bones...it might be interesting to see the
place...

also, Wolfowitz according to a GQ article a while back, managed to
persuade Marcos to turn over power without bloodshed
so he's not a complete warmonger -- if he would have just learned
Arabic maybe he could have done the same for Saddam

> Now that I think about it,  Farina only used a TH-like setting in an
> early chapter of his book.  Didn't name it. The reference was clear
> to insiders however.

Makes me want to reread "Down So Long"

>
> I knew about Telluride House years before Pynchon OR Wolfowitz
> attended Cornell. A good friend's brothers had all studied electrical
> engineering there and had benefited from Telluride. They all went to
> work  for General Electric, which has close associations with Cornell
> and Telluride.
>

and shows up in GR, and is something like a 1st cousin to IG Farben...



>
> >
> > NP - apparently Saul Bellow's book Ravelstein was based on Allan Bloom
>
> Yes.
>
>


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