AtD Re: Daily Show Program-10 year Celebration Bash

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Like I said before, you don't have to "squint a little and let your eyes drift out of focus" to see where the author's comin' from. Scroll down (if your're spoiler adverse---read something else, please) to see exactly what I'm talkin' 'bout:





















































     'He was trying to pass on what he thought they should know, when he had a minute, though there never was the time. "Here. The most precious thing I own." He took his union card from his wallet and showed them, one by one. "These words right here"---pointing to the slogan on the back of the card---"is what it all comes down to, you won't hear it in school, maybe the Gettysburg Address, Declaration of Independence and so forth, but if you learn nothing else, learn this by heart, what it says here---"Labor produces all wealth. Wealth belongs to the producer thereof." Straight talk. No double-talking you like the plutes do, 'cause with them what you always have to be listening for is the opposite of what they say. 'Freedom,' then's the time to watch your back in particular---start telling you how free you are, somethin's up, next thing you know the gates have been slammed shut and there's the Captain givin you them looks. 'Reform'? More new snouts at the Trough. "Compassion" means
 the population of starving, homeless, and dead is about to take another jump. So Forth. Why, you could write a whole foreign phrase book just on what Republicans have to say."


Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, page 93
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From: "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> On 11/18/06, Keith McMullen <keithsz at mac.com> wrote:
> > Advance reviews indicate that as GR was all about the Holocaust, AtD is 
> exclusively about 9-11 and the new American Fascist State. 9-11 drips from every 
> page, and when you read AtD with a Magic Eye, it proves to be a left-wing 
> diatribe against the Bush Administration.  Just wait. You'll see. If you squint 
> a little and let your eyes drift out of focus. You'll see.
> 
> Well you just might be correct.  See SPOILER below from the serial review:
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> Their further exploits, we are told, are detailed elsewhere in a
> series of dime novels with titles such as "The Chums of Chance in Old
> Mexico" and "The Chums of Chance and the Evil Halfwit" (that's the one
> set in Washington, D.C.).