more on Nixon, "a brute in need of extermination"---Hunter S. Thompson

[Mark Kohut]

Anyone speculate---or know---whether Nixon's playcalling was one of the sources for DeLillo's EndZone? Ya think? 

There is a long article or book on Nixon as anti-Muse, Muse of evil to so many writers.........

--- On Mon, 1/4/10, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: more on Nixon, "a brute in need of extermination"---Hunter S.  Thompson
> To: malignd at aol.com
> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Monday, January 4, 2010, 11:51 AM
> I guess when the President calls in a
> play, you run it.
> 
> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 9:08 PM,  <malignd at aol.com>
> wrote:
> > He knew no more than the average--which is to say
> rabid--fan.  One remembers
> > him giving George Allen a play to run which Allen
> dutifully ran and which
> > notably failed.
> >
> > But Thompson respected his grasp of NFL football.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com>
> > To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> > Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> > Sent: Sat, Jan 2, 2010 10:34 am
> > Subject: Re: more on Nixon, "a brute in need of
> extermination"---Hunter S.
> >  Thompson
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> wrote:>>
> > Pynchon, Coover, Roth, Thompson, others I'm sure I
> don't know of.....so many
> > American writers so loathed that
> man.................>>But Thompson
> > respected his grasp of NFL football.
> >
> >
>