Cornell campus // Telluride House

[Paul Mackin]

On Mar 2, 2006, at 4:46 PM, Michael Bailey wrote:

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

He has the reputation for being the brightest of the neocons.  You  
hear strange things about him. He and that Doug Feith, whom Tommy  
Franks called the stupidest fucking individual on the face of  the  
earth. Probably a slight exaggeration. Wonder if Woffowitz at least  
will ever feel anything like remorse? Like MacNamara? Maybe pull a T.  
E. Lawrence on us--go off and enlist in the marines, get himself  
killed or something.

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>> 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.
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> Makes me want to reread "Down So Long"

Gnosis reminds me of stately pump Buck Mulligan. Juvenile student  
pranks . . .
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>> 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.
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> and shows up in GR, and is something like a 1st cousin to IG Farben...
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>>> NP - apparently Saul Bellow's book Ravelstein was based on Allan  
>>> Bloom
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>> Yes.
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> --
> "Acceptance, forgiveness, love - now that's a philosophy of life!"
> -Woody Allen, as Broadway Danny Rose