Remedios varo

[David Kipen]

Hello from the "Remedios varo en la literatura" exhibit at the museo de arte moderno in mexico city, up through december! I'm buying varo postcards, a poster, a mousepad, a cigarette case -- and I don't even smoke! Can somebody remind me of where trp and/or oedipa saw varo's work?

----- Original Message -----
From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org <owner-pynchon-l at waste.org>
To: John Carvill <johncarvill at gmail.com>
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thu Sep 10 14:43:30 2009
Subject: Re: Sick Heil

On 9/10/09, John Carvill <johncarvill at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm just saying, regaring this story about idiotic behaviour among
> *football fans*, lets keep it in proportion. The Sun is a
> hyper-sensationilist tabloid rag, a thoroughly unpleasant and in fact
> downright evil presence in British society, owned by Rupert Murdoch.
> For them to point fingers is pretty rich.
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yes, that thought crossed my mind as well

>
>> >
> a) Football fans in general can be prone to behaviours we would not
> find laudable
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ever read Among the Thugs about soccer hooligans in Britain? scary shit

> b) The context in which this particular strain of fascist-friendly
> insanity arose is complex
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I wonder if some of it has to do with at some level by those on the
right (or generally) in feeling the crimes of Nazism overshadowing the
crimes of Stalin to such an extent that there is a feeling of
comraderie or nostalgia for as u call it "fascist friendly" elements
in places like Croatia--in the Balkans you have the added complexity
of the recent war with Serbia (who are perceived as perpetrating more
acts of brutality/war crimes at least in the west-- tho Croatia had
done similar if not on the scale of Serbia's--the massacre at
Srebencia and the siege of Sarajevo are remembered more)
So, the references to the Ustashe could be seen not only as a bulwark
against communism and a resurgent Russia but also against the Serbs
(supported by the Kremlin) ,(and at one point the state of Yugoslavia,
too.) and finally, I think there is an anti-western element mixed in,
particularly with Europe and NATO and the increasing demands for the
capture of war criminals, who are believed to be patriots by the
locals. so there's nationalism.
In any event, it is rather sad to see pretty girls wearing the symbols
of an organization that during the war committed such horrifying acts
(which the Serbs would later  use as justification for its brutality
in the 1990s)

> We had a 'discussion' on this list a while back, which resulted in me
> taking my ball and going home for a while. What was demonstrated was a
> well-nigh universal level of utter ignorance with regard to the recent
> politics and conflicts in the Balkans. As someone with an interest in
> that area, I found it very sad. I also got really pissed off. SO I'm
> not wanting to open up that whole can of worms again. I'm just
> cautioning against people here, on this list, getting themselves
> worked up about a subject they're not too clued-up on.
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u should watch Richard Gere in The Hunting Party (seeking out a
Karadzic-type character) for a sense of how Hollywood/US views events
in the Balkans--its really awful, and unintentionally funny
considering in part, the reality where the real Karadzic was "hiding"
in Belgrade.

rich