ATDTDA (18): 493-494 "captivated by eyes"

[Cometman]

--- robinlandseadel wrote:
> Got my copy of "Lines of Flight: Discursive Time and Countercultural
> Desire in the Work of Thomas Pynchon [1]" by Stefan Mattessich. 

I bought that one too

> [dumped from my bookstore job,

you should open a radical book store -- works for some people --
have a coffeeshop, a little stage with live poetry and 
acoustic guitars; and be like that bookstore owner in
France who lets people stay overnight, or even for years...

>  words that could just as easily be monosylabic and
> in use as an accepted part of common parlance 

c'mon, that's like faulting Charlie Parker for using
too many notes...

my quarrel, if any, is it seems like he's going to say the
Counterforce ISN'T really cool, when in fact it IS!
I dread a "Coupland Gen-X@" moment 
ie "gosh darn those hippie parents"

That and it needs more personal anecdotes (but I always
think that) even if he is faulting the hippie parents.
  
At least that's what I think so far - 
haven't read the whole book yet.

> the interview
> for Japanese 
> Playboy 

got to read that sometime...

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finally - Abbie Hoffman -- I had a friend who "stole that book" back in
the day -
me personally, I _think_ I paid for my copy of "Revolution for the Hell
of It" (if not, apologies to B Dalton's) 
 
however, the idol might have feet of clay

exemplary muckraker Sherman Skolnick (he and Joe Vialls are the TS
Eliot and Ezra Pound of muck, Skolnick's prose is more tortuous,
whereas Vialls is easiest to accuse of anti-semitism - still
they were both geniuses) 
alleges that most of them were CIA agents provocateur

but here, let him tell it:

the Anti-Viet Nam War supposed activists....were selected, installed,
and financed, on behalf of the Aristocracy, through their American CIA,
as the supposed "leaders" of what was called then the "Peace Movement".


These government-paid and protected agents provocateurs were the main
focus of the oil-soaked, spy-riddled monopoly press. The purpose? To
keep other real peaceniks from being heard and seen. And further, to
censor and side-track any and all data as to the war-mongers and
war-profiteers among the Federal Banker-Judges, paid stooges in
Congress, and the White House. 

The American CIA instigated the riots in August, 1968, at the Democrat
Party Convention in Chicago, discrediting the Democrat candidate for
President. Some of the rioters were dupes and the Chicago Police were
not informed about what really they were facing and why. The bottom
line? Richard M. Nixon, Fascist-inclined on behalf of the
Establishment, was installed in the White House. When the "powers that
be" were finished using Nixon as a stooge and scapegoat, they put their
CIA-funded fakers to lead a nationwide campaign to remove him,
1973-1974 after he was re-elected in a purported land-slide election
1972, with the Watergate Affair on purpose not widely discussed PRIOR
to the re-election. That was through the Roger Baldwin Foundation, as
we mentioned in Part One, that took over, in 1967, the defunct American
Civil Liberties Union, and continues even now to use the term "ACLU",
as if, as an entity, they still existed. 

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If you don't like Skolnick -- are you paranoid enough?
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oddly enough - and due to the magic of the Counterforce
(as Robin's political platform shows)
the group formerly known as the Left found salvation
in the briar patch of marginalization, from the tarbaby
of political involvement

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one more interesting fact from Skolnick: 
"Chicago 7" trial attorney William Kunstler had been with the
predecessor agency to CIA, namely OSS. During the "7" trial he used to
eat lunch with Chicago U.S. District Judge Hubert L. Will who had been
C.I.A.'s head of Counter-Intelligence in Europe. Kunstler ran away
every time Skolnick or any of Skolnick's associates sought to question
the lawyer about his activities with the C.I.A. in the 1950s and 1960s.
Kunstler was an expert on creating apparent fake scenarios with his
expertise at writing radio scripts. 



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life!" -  Woody Allen as Broadway Danny Rose

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