And the winner is ...

[rich]

he supported moderate conservative candidates
and considering the time w/ the Shining Path I'm not sure that was
such a bad thing (despite some of the market reforms that smacked of
free-marketers w/ hardons)

i can deal with moderate conservatives--they've just been squeezed out
of the current conservative moment here in the US unfortunately

reminds me of that endless talk in British Labour circles in the
80s--do we continue to be shrill or do we become relevant. Blair took
that running eventually and destroyed it the little fucker

Gabriel Garcia M. is the opposite in a way--all that nonsense
supporting Castro and that dickhead in Venezeula--in the former case,
keeping silent about Castro's abuses. that's pretty depressing for a
man who wrote the autumn of the patriarch
real life is messy I suppose

rich

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Page <page at quesnelbc.com> wrote:
> Vargas Llosa was left wing early on. Then he got the right-wing influenza
> and went political. Then he got over the flu and returned to the left.
>
> Whatever his politics, he is a brilliant writer.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Heikki Raudaskoski" <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi>
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 4:24 AM
> Subject: Re: And the winner is ...
>
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>
>
> I'm quite surprised, knowing the Swedish Academy's aversion
> to writers who have a reputation of being "right-wingers".
>
> A fine writer.
>
> Heikki
>
>
> On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Dave Monroe wrote:
>
>> Mario Vargas Llosa
>>
>> http://nobelprize.org/index.html
>>
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>