Dy-No-Mite! [was New Bookforum]

[Keith]

"Buda’s anarchist forebears sang prosaic hymns to dynamite, whose  
invention seemed to herald a new equilibrium of power between  
individuals and states; Albert Parsons, one of the men (wrongly)  
found guilty of the Haymarket bombing, proclaimed at the trial that  
“dynamite is the diffusion of power. It is democratic; it makes  
everybody equal. . . . Nothing can meet it. The Pinkertons, the  
police, the militia, are absolutely worthless in the presence of  
dynamite. . . . It is the equilibrium. It is the annihilator. It is  
the disseminator of power. It is the downfall of oppression.”  
Parsons, who had not himself handled the stuff, noted that “the  
dynamite bomb, I am told, costs six cents. It can be made by anybody.  
The Winchester rifle costs eighteen dollars.”"

from:
"Ignition Switch" A pair of histories show the
                   unprecedented effects of two
                   technologies of terror.
                                     By Jonathan Shainin
http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/200703/254
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On Jun 6, 2007, at 2:09 PM, Ya Sam wrote:

"Bad Monkeys is not the best of Ruff’s novels merely because it  
superficially resembles Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49, but the  
younger author’s book does have a plucky California protagonist who  
tumbles into the wonderground."

http://www.bookforum.net/inprint/issue=200703&id=267

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