politics and lit again

[Paul Mackin]

On Sep 29, 2006, at 10:22 PM, mikebailey at speakeasy.net wrote:

> Mark Twain came out against the Spanish-American war, and they  
> turned the boats around and brought them home on his say-so...
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> (wishful thinking)
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> Dickens actually did have some influence, didn't he?

If living today he'd probably be able to  stop the War on Christmas  
that Stephen Colbert was talking about the other evening.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: kelber at mindspring.com [mailto:kelber at mindspring.com]
>> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 09:05 PM
>> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Subject: Re: politics and lit again
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>> Not to mention, the American public is too illiterate and  
>> uneducated to have heard of these guys.  TRP would have to appear  
>> in thong underwear to get any notice whatsoever from the average  
>> American.
>>
>> Laura
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>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com>
>>> Sent: Sep 29, 2006 4:38 PM
>>> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>>> Subject: politics and lit again
>>>
>>> Sorry if posted before
>>>
>>>
>>> "If Philip Roth, Don DeLillo or Thomas Pynchon (the three  
>>> Americans most
>>> mentioned as Nobel contenders) would publicly accuse President  
>>> Bush of
>>> certain indiscretions, or even crimes, hardly any of our  
>>> newspapers would
>>> hand over significant space; the American public has been  
>>> historically
>>> mistrustful of art’s encroachment on politics — especially now,  
>>> in a world
>>> in which art has been depoliticized into mere entertainment."
>>>
>>> http://www.forward.com/articles/schadenfreude-and-suspicion-after- 
>>> nobel-laureate-r/
>>>
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