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[Mark Kohut]

Right on, as used to be said.....the "conspiracies" agianst all our days are
   
  deeper, subtler, not stupid, far-reaching in History and Life and worth
   whole books to present......in facts and in the deeper truths only
   
  great fiction reveals..

kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
  There's a difference between the military-industrial complex type of conspiracy, which has developed incrementally, sometimes deliberately, sometimes haphazardly from the Industrial Revolution through IG Farben, Prescott Bush etc. on to Haliburton et al.; and the type of 9-11 conspiracies which involve a roomful of people, sworn to secrecy, plotting far-reaching acts of violence. It's not that the latter never happens, it's just that the idea of Bush and Co (or an International Jewish Bankers' Conspiracy) being behind 9-11 doesn't really illuminate how this world works in the way Pynchon's paranoia does.

Laura

PS - The footage of that guy ranting about how Silverstein, Silverstein, Silverstein! is behind the conspiracy definitely has an anti-semitic tinge.

>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Mark Kohut 
>>Sent: Nov 2, 2007 2:58 PM
>>To: pynchon -l 

>>Subject: A-and
>>
>>I was in New York City on September 11.
>> 
>> Building 7 was on fire for hours and hunks of it were somehow destroyed/damaged. 
>> 
>> Debris hit it;; debris (evidently) landed on it.
>> 
>> No "firefighters' there? Silverstein didn't say there were (and as if in that day's communication confusion he could have known that for sure)
>> 
>> ....but there were (other) people there. It was one of the operational 'centers'...
>> 
>> To remind us of a Grouchoism, "Who am I going to believe, my lying eyes and dormant mind or conspiracy theorists?
>> Or
>> "it is very heard to see what is in front of our eyes"---George Orwell 
>> 
>> 
>>
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