Von Braun

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Well, it looks like the OBA meme took off, kinda a couple 
two-three riffs taken from Ishmael Reed's 'Mumbo Jumbo', 
the op. that was cit.ed in Gravity's Rainbow °

          Monte Davis:
          Sorry, don't know what came over me.

Righteous indignation [‡]?
 
           MD:
           Germans who designed weapons were bad, bad men.

           "And what is it that put America in the forefront of the nuclear 
           nations? And what is it that will make it possible to spend 
           twenty billion dollars of your money to put some clown on 
           the moon? Well, it was good old American know how, that's 
           what, as provided by good old Americans like 
           Dr. Wernher von Braun"!*

           MD:
           Our WWII was a good, good war, because ends cannot be 
           corrupted by means. 

There simply cannot be a good war, war is theft, war is murder. 

The Master narratives we are fed—hypnotized by—serve to 
distract us, give an excuse from, all that is awful in Homo Sapiens,
an awfulness magnified by war.
 
           MD: Being asphyxiated and/or incinerated at home in an Axis 
           city is incomparable to being asphyxiated and/or incinerated 
           at the end of a train ride. As would be being promptly 
           incinerated by the thermonuclear warheads of which we and 
           the Russians currently have 36,400. Many of ours are on 
           missiles that we were hornswoggled into building by a bad, 
           bad man, but that's OK because we only built them so we'll 
           never have to use them.

           Most of all, Our Beloved Author would never be so inconsiderate 
           of our righteous comfort as to muddy these certainties.
 
           -Card-Carrying Deconstructionalist

"English Lit. students had a mass card burning ceremony on Sproul Plaza this
morning, Wedding Dress Dave, their spokesman, said he was speaking for the 
whole group—"You should check out some of the critical papers we received 
from Jack Gladney, you'd never know Zyklon B was involved. The man's got
a three hundred page dissertation on the use of the comma in Mein Kampf, 
for christ's sake."

° :

           Heikki:
           From an interview of Toomas Hendrik Ilves, the president of Estonia - 
           who has spent most of his life outside Estonia, mainly in the US - by 
           the leading Estonian newspaper Postimees:

           "What is your favorite work of literature? What kind of music do you 
           listen to?"

           "Thomas Pynchon's 'Gravity's Rainbow'. My musical tastes are quite 
           broad, from punk to Monteverdi, from Terry Riley to Ravi Shankar."  

           http://tinyurl.com/2xm5h3

My kinda guy!

‡ : "Meat cult every Wednesday Night, Invite a girl and dine by the whites of 
her eyes!"

* : http://members.aol.com/quentncree/lehrer/vonbraun.htm