Not politics - Pynchon (bombs)

[Mark Kohut]

They killed one of themslves when a bomb exploded in a greenwhich village
building.


--- On Wed, 10/8/08, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Not politics - Pynchon (bombs)
> To: "Michael Bailey" <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
> Cc: "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 8:53 AM
> They shot a cop in a bank robbery about two blocks from
> where I'm typing
> this.
> 
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 3:32 AM, Michael Bailey
> <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
> > wrote:
> 
> > there are a lot of good books reviewing the Weather
> Underground
> > and a couple of videos
> >
> > what I came away with from looking at a few of them
> was
> >
> > they managed to not kill a lot of people (I'm
> thinking zero, but that
> > could be wrong)
> >
> > they got some impressive targets
> >
> > their statements indicate they were reacting from
> understandable
> > outrage at the unimaginably
> > evil bombing of Cambodia
> >
> > they didn't accomplish a whole heck of a lot
> >
> > they could easily have been provocateurs, in that
> their actions justified
> > draconian enforcement AND took attention away from
> Amerikka's SE Asia
> > murders
> >
> > oh, a-and that Mark Rudd went on to become a community
> college math
> > teacher!
> >
> >
> >
> > On 10/7/08, Glenn Scheper
> <glenn_scheper at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > > From a political email...
> > >
> > >  During The Time Obama And Ayers Served Together
> On The Woods Fund, Ayers
> > Was
> > >  Quoted Saying "I Don't Regret Setting
> Bombs ... I Feel We Didn't Do
> > Enough." "'I
> > >  don't regret setting bombs,' Bill Ayers
> said. 'I feel we didn't do
> > enough.' Mr.
> > >  Ayers, who spent the 1970's as a fugitive in
> the Weather Underground,
> > was
> > >  sitting in the kitchen of his big
> turn-of-the-19th-century stone house
> > in the
> > >  Hyde Park district of Chicago." (Dinitia
> Smith, "No Regrets For A Love
> > Of
> > >  Explosives," The New York Times, 9/11/01)
> > >   -- file://PastedText/854250
> > >
> > >  ==========
> > >
> > >  BTW, a hiatus in my help(?) on the TMoP read:
> > >
> > >  I got a local apt w/o web access yet;
> > >  I fled work when the wife showed up.
> > >
> > >  I'm in a small town that is sooo cool!
> > >
> > >  I saw a town parade, and knew two people in it.
> > >
> > >  I dropped in at a van there to give blood for
> the
> > >  first time (although postponed due to
> anitbiotics).
> > >
> > >  I'm walking around in a relaxed, loving
> spirit,
> > >  and people are very cordial.
> > >
> > >  A scary looking bulked ethnic flashed me
> "peace".
> > >
> > >  I got my first real cheeseburger at a local
> joint.
> > >  "I've been victimized by McDonalds all
> these years."
> > >
> > >  A local emporium--not Walmart--has everything.
> > >  I even saw a pair of welding googles.
> > >  I got a wine bottle opener, and other needful
> things.
> > >
> > >  Some friends with a business set me up in a
> spare office with Internet.
> > >
> > >  A man gave me a guava off his tree this morning.
> > >
> > >  I'm checking out Toastmasters tomorrow
> evening.
> > >
> > >  Yours truly,
> > >  Glenn Scheper
> > >  http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/
> > >
> > > glenn_scheper + at + earthlink.net
> > >  Copyleft(!) Forward freely.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > "He ain't crazy, he's a-makin'
> pottery" - Finley Pater Dunne
> >