NP-Tell me this doesn't read like a story written by DeLillo

[rich]

the husband in Players (avg, anonymous anti-heroes DeLillo is noted for),
the subtext running through Running Dog (the hidden sleaze that is
government), the bubbling anger of Lee Harvey Oswald in Libra

that damaging poetry of the faceless and desperate which is particularly
American

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> yes. Which one?
>
> --- On Fri, 2/19/10, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> > Subject: NP-Tell me this doesn't read like a story written by DeLillo
> > To: "“pynchon-l at waste.org“" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> > Date: Friday, February 19, 2010, 8:27 PM
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/20/us/20crash.html?hp
> > “I never saw Joe
> > angry about anything,” said Billy Eli, a honkytonk
> > bandleader who played with Mr. Stack for about three years.
> > “He was just a middle-of-the-road kind of
> > dude.”
> >
> > Mr. Stack also
> > assailed big business, politicians and tax policies that
> > limited the entrepreneurial prospects of computer software
> > engineers.
> >
> > On arrival in this
> > growing capital city, best known for its music scene, its
> > technology booms and the tension between the two, Mr. Stack
> > fit a certain local stereotype, the musician-technophile
> > crossover. At home he hunkered in front of a computer with
> > two screens, relatives said, and at gigs he mingled without
> > much visible anxiety.
> >
> > Mr. Stack married
> > the former Sheryl Housh, a divorced piano instructor who had
> > once spent four years with The Way International, widely
> > regarded as a religious cult.
> >
> > Together they lived
> > in a two-story red brick house in North Austin, making
> > little impression on neighbors.
> >
> > “His name never
> > came up,” said Jack Lillis, an airport attendant.
> > “He’s one of many who rent hangar space
> > here.”
> >
> > He told few besides
> > his wife of a simmering anger for which, he wrote, “there
> > isn’t enough therapy in the world.”
> >
>
>
>
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