ATD p356 Chinese Gong Effect

[rich]

i'm sure this has been mentioned before--the story of The Manchurian
Candidate.

 and just a short note to say I think Japanese invasion of China began in
1931; second war per se began in 1937

rich
On 4/8/07, Dan Hansong <danhansong at 163.com> wrote:
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>          Quote:
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>           Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 06:55:35 -0700 (PDT)
>          From: Dave Monroe  <monropolitan at yahoo.com >
>          Subject: Re: ATD p356 Chinese Gong Effect
>                  > BTW: In this section, the white slavery show calls
>                  > to my mind "Fu Manchu's Mask", a 1930s
>                  > movie Pynchon heavily borrows in COL49....
>
>          How so?  Genuinely curious.  Let us know ...
>
> Dave, "heavily borrows" might sound an overstatement, but I am always
> wondering whether there are more parallels between Fu Manchu series
> and COL49 other than a direct reference to this name on p.8/9. For
> instance,
> the stamp expert "Genghis Cohen" in COL49 is named after "Genghis Khan",
> as TRP went out of his to verify in New York Times (17 July 1966), and
> Khan's
> mask is a Holy Grail both the Oriental freak Fu and his Western rivals
> crave for.
> More importantly, apart from Fu Manchu's many a doctorate he earned in
> Europe,
> psychology is a field he specializes in. Fu Manchu devises so many exotic
> gadgets to tortue the rivals and eventually to control them in a mental
> way.
> As a result, his ex-prinsoners appear as normal as they should be, but
> they
> are in fact no more than Fu Manchu's walking dummies.
>
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