aw. RE: The Nobel Prize for War 2009 goes to ...

[Thomas Eckhardt]

"There, then, he sat, holding up that imbecile candle in the heart of 
that almighty forlornness. There, then, he sat, the sign and symbol of a 
man without faith, hopelessly holding up hope in the midst of despair."

I don't know whether I would have voted for Obama. Probably yes. It 
would have felt like Queequeg holding that imbecile candle. Queequeg's 
point of view is vindicated in the course of the novel. Which, of 
course, is fiction.

Thomas

P.S. I don't know much about Lula. In every other respect, I agree.

alice wellintown schrieb:

>I am a litttle surprized that readers of Pynchon would have invested
>any faith in the Democrat Establishment. It's kinda silly to expect
>that the Democrats will end the killing. These are not wars. They are
>murder for money and power. We should not call them wars on anything
>or anybody. The US is not at War or making War on a nation or an idea,
>but merely killing lots of people ands wasting the world's resources
>and compounding problems and conflicts. Talk. Negotiate. This was the
>hope this president seemed to hold up; the Nobel people gave him a
>push and he fell down. The real Nobel Hero here is Lula.
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