IVIV Bobwire & Jolly Rancher

[Mark Kohut]

John,

How is this take on Bigfoot's 'endearingness' in collecting barbwire, that wonderful Pynhconian image with seemingly no redeeming value:

Bigfoot LOVES his job. Bigfoot LOVES being a fascist. Bigfoot is a friendly fascist. Another spoke in the co-optation theme ala Laura's question?

Way back around the time GR was published there was an essay I was lead to, that later became a book, and one might say, by that time its truth
was everywhere. What was Reagan but...........

This has to be a reprint, showing some kind of minor classic status. The original was later 70s, I believe.

Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America by Bertram Gross (Paperback - Jul 1, 1999)
Buy new: $24.0031 Used & new from $6.93

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--- On Tue, 9/1/09, John Carvill <johncarvill at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: John Carvill <johncarvill at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: IVIV Bobwire & Jolly Rancher
> To: "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> Cc: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>, "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 1:49 PM
> >
> > Of course barbed wire had big political consequences
> in the "taming"
> > of the Wild West.  I seem to remember the gauchos
> in GR mourning the
> > loss of freedom they had before the open plains were
> cordoned off.
> >
> 
> Ah yes, right. Well, it's easy to think of so many
> negative
> connotations of barbed wire. Yet Bigfoot collecting rolls
> of vintage
> wire seems somehow endearing!
>