IVIV (8): The Two Nixons

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As I recall, there are scenes at Burning Tree in The Public Burning. Nice 
touch. Unc Sam is there with Nixon, and tells Nixon to drop trou.


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To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
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Subject: Re: IVIV (8): The Two Nixons


> Agree.  The Public Burning is wonderful. If I remember correctly, ever
> other chapter written by Uncle Sam, every other by Nixon.  The Nixon
> chapters I remember as sublime.
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> From: Page <page at quesnelbc.com>
> To: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>; Dave Monroe
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> Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Thu, Oct 1, 2009 9:13 pm
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> rich is right. It is wonderful, so put it on your list. Coover is one
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> best lesser- known great American authors.
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> From: "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
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> To: "Dave Monroe" <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
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> Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
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> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 1:53 PM
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>> there's robert coover loose trilogy about Nixon--The Public Burning,
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>> Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears (Nixon as a
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>> fighter for union labor and a horndog) and the wonderfully deranged A
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>> Political Fable written in 68 yr of Nixon's election-aka The Cat in
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>> the Hat for President.
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>> Coover's Journal during the writing of the Public Burning is very
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>> interesting reading partly due to the sheer effort that Coover made
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>> keep up with all the new information emerging from watergate an
> d the
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>> research where he had to write all his notes in long hand at places
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>> like the British Library
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>> Beyond that, tho Coover skewers Nixon (like Uncle Sam's sodomizing of
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>> same at the end of the book, or Nixon's liaison at Sing Sing with
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>> Ethel Rosenberg or Hoover in drag, or the apocalyptic party at Times
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>> Square where the Rosenbergs are pubicly eltrocuted-- its very funny),
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>> Nixon comes across as oddly sympathetic thruout the book as an
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>> outsized outsider within Eisenhower's administration
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>> I wish more folks would read it.  its wonderful
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>> rich
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>> rich
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>> On 9/30/09, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Dave Monroe
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>>> <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> "the two Nixons"
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>>> Bilocation?
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