AtD showing vs. telling

[rich]

sounds like longing to be a terrorist to me. where exactly do u draw the
line. we all in some ways work for someone higher up the plutocratic chain.
easy slope from killing individuals to killing multitudes or so I think.
bin laden used very much the same sentiment for attacking civilians in the
west. and tit for tat, not that the US hasn't fallen down a bit down that
slope as well

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Mark Kohut wrote:
> > Fear....."fear was all around"  and
> >
> > Longing......
> >
>
> longing was in one of the passages that James Wood singled out not to
> like, right?
>
> - page 362: "Sometimes he was just after the explosion, it was like
> telling them in a voice too loud to ignore to fuck off.  And sometimes
> it was so he wouldn't feel nagging at him the unfinished business with
> Deuce and Sloat, wherever they were these days.  If Capital's own
> books showed a balance in clear favor of damnation, if these plutes
> were undeniably evil hombres, then how much more so were those who
> took care of their problems for them, in no matter what ignorance of
> why, not all of their faces on the wanted bills, in that darkly
> textured style that was more about the kind of remembering, the unholy
> longing going on out here, than of any real-life badman likeness..."
>
> what Woods objects to, among other things, is how this is really
> friggin' hard to parse, and appears to trail off without achieving a
> worthy expression.
>
> The list worked out on this passage during the AtD read...I'm not
> remembering being completely convinced by any explanation offered,
> including my own.
>
> I'd like to supply a gloss here, but - like the long sentence in
> Chapter 9 of V. - I'm just not ready to actually parse it myself.
>
> does that make me a bad person?
>
> Amazon search shows "longing" it occurs 3 times in the 300-399 page
> range, and a few other times in the book.
>
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