Uncivil Disobedience

[Michael Bailey]

Mark Kohut wrote:
> The, to me, simple unassailable truth of this woman's thesis is why I can
>  not believe OBA EVER condones a single act of 'violent disobedience" in AtD...
>
>  To me, when read right--lots of layered 'right' meanings BUT many "wrong' readings of AtD [any book]...."Against the Day" is a book-length working out of two (or more) wrongs [varieties of deeply unjust fascism/ power-mongering vs. "violent disobedience] NEVER making a 'right'.
>

among other things...
but yes, prominent among them!
I have this memory of somewhere in school reading and talking about how
one of the purposes of literature is to reaffirm stock values.
And among those is to point out the wrongness of the revenge ethic.
(somewhere I read a cool propounding of how Beowulf does this)

Thereby adding a "doper's cadenza" to an earlier question raised in
our discussion
of Pynchon's AtD blurb, ie What Is the Purpose of Literature?