Prepping the IV

[Robin Landseadel]

On Jul 26, 2009, at 6:27 PM, Campbel Morgan wrote:

> . . . and he stuck to the good grave comedy  for fifty-odd years
> because satire, even fabulous subversive satire [Weidenbuger] is, as
> the constant argumets here attest, a fitting mode for an American, who
> was never a beat, never a pot-head hippie, always an American author,
> easily recognized as a critic of Reagan and Nixon, and even Kennedy
> and the cold war conservatives of the old Left, but clearly not a Nwe
> Left author).

Res ipsa loquitur:

	“We would argue all day about politics,” she said. “He was
	liberal and I was conservative. But he was a lot smarter than I
	was.”

http://www.theaesthetic.com/NewFiles/thomasandevelyn.html

	"It is a ripsnorting and honorable account of an outlaw tradition
	in American politics which too seldom gets past the bouncers at
	the gateways of our national narrative."

	--Thomas Pynchon

http://www.nationbooks.org/book/74/Murdered%20by%20Capitalism

	My Escape from the CIA (And Other Improbable Events)

	Hughes Rudd
	(1966)
	Dutton, 1966, Out of Print.

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	Unfortunately this book is out of print; but the blurb (thank you
	NYPL!) suggests that perhaps this work informed some of the
	thematic material present in Vineland.

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	Pynchon writes: You have a feeling, reading these stories, that
	Hughes Rudd, like some kind of a satanic Santa Claus, is
	leading you in under under the shadow of the great, grotesque
	American Christmas Tree and over to an assortment of gift
	packages, each one of which is quietly ticking. The explosions
	may come while you're reading, or after you've finished a
	particular story. But it's the thought behind them that really
	counts: to bring you, ready or not, into the presence of truth.
	Without copping out behind idle metaphors or irrelevant plot
	devices, Mr. Rudd has succeeded in telling, with all his
	reporter's love of accuracy, and mastery of detail, and irony, and
	grace, and sometimes terrifying precision, exactly what the hell
	having to be an American, now, during the years of total war,
	epidemic anxiety and mass communications whose promise
	has been corrupted, is really about; where it's really at. He
	comes as close to the core of the business as anybody has,
	because he is not only a writer with an enormous genius for
	spinning a yarn, but also one whose fine ear is tuned both to
	the reverberations of global history and to the secret
	whisperings of the human spirit. It is our good luck as readers to
	share, and certainly to ponder ourselves, the things he has
	been listening to.

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	SDS: Ten Years Toward a Revolution

	Kirkpatrick Sale
	(1973)
	Out of Print. [Browse/Special Order]

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	Kirkpatrick Sale, "the first writer ever given access to the SDS
	archives," tells the story of the rise and fall of the Students for a
	Democratic Society.

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	Pynchon writes: SDS is the first great history of the American
	prerevolution. . . . It will stand not only on its extraordinary merits
	because it is a source of clarity, energy and sanity for anyone
	trying to survive the Nixonian reaction, but also as one book
	that was there when we needed it the most.

http://www.themodernword.com/Pynchon/pynchon_essays_blurbs.html