Repost: "The Big One"

Paul Mackin paul.mackin at verizon.net
Fri Jul 11 12:55:19 CDT 2008


robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:
>           Paul Mackin:
>           . . . .Secondly, saying that former Nazis (Whom W undoubted 
>           was one of) would find important roles in the post-war 
>           corporate world is not necessarily saying that the latter 
>           is full-fledgedly Nazi. . . .
>
> Yet the far left would make that connection. You might not, but the 
> Abbie Hoffmans of the world did and continue to do so. And Against
> the Day is filled with favorable portraits of the Abbie Hoffmans of
> the Gilded Age. And it's pretty obvious that Pynchon used material 
> from "Murdered by Capitalism" by John Ross of Trinidad, CA,
> one of the Abbie Hoffmans of our time:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/5hulsd
>
>   
I thought we were talking about what the Tarot passage conveys--not the 
views of the "far left" (presume you mean people who blow shit up) or 
the "fun with the revolution" left (Abbie Hoffman).








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