P.S. on the philosophy rap contest

[John Bailey]

Coetzee isn't that reclusive here in Australia - appears occasionally to
give talks, do openings, attend writers festivals.

A few years back he also wrote a very unambiguous opinion piece about the
mechanisation of animal slaughter and its roots in the modern idea of humans
as units - which he ties to the Holocaust.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/animals-cant-speak-for-themselves--its-up-to-us/2007/02/21/1171733841769.html

I think I have heard that Pynchon and he know each other. Maybe they get
together with Rushdie and have poker nights.


On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 6:32 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> The mechanization of agriculture linked to mechanized slaughter in the 20th
> Century might remind you of a major trope in "Against the Day".
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> It did me, although the reminding came in reverse order.
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> This, and Coetze's first novel, are two reasons why I suspect OBA and
> Coetze might talk to each other. Relative reclsuivity is a third. Mutual
> genius is a fourth.
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