IVIV (1) Bigfoot Bjornsen

[Dave Monroe]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Dave Monroe<against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote

>   "'Bigfoot Bjornsen does commercials for them.'" (IV, Ch. 1,  p. 8)

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a
human face—forever."

--George Orwell, 1984 (1949)

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four

"They remember last August's riot as an outburst, a seizure. Yet what,
from the realistic viewpoint of Watts, was so abnormal? 'Man's got his
foot on your neck,' said one guy who was there, 'sooner or later you
going to stop asking him to take it off.' The violence it took to get
that foot to ease up even the little it did was no surprise. Many had
predicted it. Once it got going, its basic objective--to beat the
Black and White police--seemed a reasonable one, and was gained the
minute The Man had to send troops in."

--Thomas Pynchon, "A Journey into the Mind of Watts" (1966)

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-watts.html
http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_watts.html
http://acompulsivereader.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/a-journey-into-the-mind-of-pynchon/