Herero skulls returned to Namibia?

[Paul Mackin]

On 7/19/2011 11:01 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> This remark was made by one of the poor, indigenous--black, I 
> believe---young men in Updike's novel Brazil. Updike
> was trying to capture part of a mindset of part of that 
> country---annotatively, part of the mindset of the
> colonized. Their perception of that.
> It is not very likely that it is a sentiment John Updike himself 
> believed as stated. Such a theme, even, was rare
> as were his novels not set in America. And, he was pretty notoriously 
> a 'conservative' in what political beliefs
> he expressed---which weren't that many. But, compared to many writers, 
> he wrote about an America he
> basically accepted.
>

Reminds me of a PBS rerrun of a couple nights ago.  A pack of wolves was 
being driven out of a choice section of Yellowstone by a rival pack. 
Property is theft.

My dog stood and pranced in front of the TV,  in rapture at the goings 
on.  She wanted to be part of it all.


P
>
> *From:* Lawrence Bryan <lebryan at speakeasy.net>
> *To:* János Széky <miksaapja at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 19, 2011 6:30 AM
> *Subject:* Re: Herero skulls returned to Namibia?
>
>
> Buried in the article is:
>
> "This gave rise to the thought of John Updike who once said: “The 
> world itself is stolen wealth… all property is theft and those who 
> have stolen most of it, make the laws for the rest of us”.his gave 
> rise to the thought of John
>
> Anyone know where this is from?
>
> Lawrence
>
> On Jul 18, 2011, at 11:49 PM, János Széky wrote:
>
>> While browsing, look what I found:
>> http://usslave.blogspot.com/2011/04/namibian-skulls-to-be-returned-from.html
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>> J
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