Bin Laden

[rich]

me, i would've thrown his body to the sharks. well, i guess it was.
but the prayers and washing and eased into the sea and shit. like
saying kaddish for adolf. no need to wave a flag. we've already fucked
up the show. we come across as stupid. but we do live in a stupid
country

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 4:59 PM,  <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
> Not one of the people you quote, nor anyone else in my recollection, would
> have had the balls to preach this palaver on 9/12.  There are people who
> want to destroy other people and those others need not quiver and quail over
> their own desires for vengeance.  I'm glad they got him.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Albert Rolls <alprolls at earthlink.net>
> To: Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Tue, May 3, 2011 12:12 pm
> Subject: Re: Bin Laden
>
> Other quotes would have served.
>
> Religious leaders of different faiths say no one should rejoice in the death
> of
> a person, even a hated enemy.
>
> Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld says that when people hear about the downfall of an
> enemy,
> rabbis often remind them of a verse from Proverbs: “Do not rejoice when your
> enemy falls, and do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles.”
>
> Herzfeld - who is the rabbi of Ohev Sholom, The National Synagogue, the
> oldest
> and largest Orthodox synagogue in Washington, D.C. - says that according to
> the
> Talmud, “God does not rejoice with the fall of the wicked.”
>
> “As the rabbinic teaching goes, as the children of Israel were crossing the
> sea
> and the army of Pharaoh was drowning, God rebuked the angels for showing
> excessive joy,” Herzfeld says.
>
>
> How the story keeps getting modified seems the most interesting. In a few
> years,
> various versions will show up in different forms in textbooks and reference
> works as lazy researchers and their editors will not follow the thread,
> taking
> whatever articles they read first as fact. The textbook story, even assuming
> the
> various books are told from the same cultural perspective, i.e., that of the
> West, will exists in dozens and dozens  of versions, even before the readers
> mistaken memories of what they read multiply those versions even more. Is
> that
> what we call history?
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>>Sent: May 3, 2011 3:42 PM
>>To: kelber at mindspring.com
>>Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>>Subject: Re: Bin Laden
>>
>>http://thedailywh.at/2011/05/03/follow-up-of-the-day-fake-mlk-quote-origin-found-on-facebook/
>>
>>Follow Up of the Day: Fake MLK Quote Origin Found On Facebook
>>
>>It seems the whole thing started innocently enough, when an
>>American-born, Japanese-based English teacher named Jessica Dovey
>>amended an actual Dr. King quote from his 1963 sermon compilation The
>>Strength to Love with her own personal sentiments (see above).
>>
>>Dovey’s words, clearly marked in the original post as being separate
>>from the King quote, were then copied wholesale by her Facebook
>>friends, and quickly spread throughout the web as a single, solitary
>>quote attributed to MLK.
>>
>>So now you know
>
>