frank miller

[Michael Bailey]

Joseph Tracy wrote:
> Yes Michael, of course I know who you are,

just checking!

>we are often uncannily similar in our takes on Pynchon's writing.

true!

> I also think our political and economic situations are so detached from any kind of humane realism ( let alone idealism) as to constitute a nightmarish marriage of Brave New World and 1984.

Yes - to hearken back to Iran (which used to be Persia, thus making a
tenuous connection to the thread topic via "300")...

the United States of America...
deposed an elected government, Mossadegh's -
to reinstate a hereditary monarch, the Shah

the United States of America?????
deposed an elected government to reinstate a hereditary monarch????????????

Hello government?
Anybody checked the mission statement lately?

And it's not like it was an isolated incident, either...