Quite Pynchon-related but obliquely, thematically

[Ian Livingston]

Whether tis nobler in mind to suffer the slings and darts of outrageous
fortune, or to oppose, and, by opposing, end them....

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:29 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not hep to all the academic marcuse jive the guy is bringing but I
> just get the sense that yeah well, so? any dipshit following the news knows
> all this shit. every street corner savior's got the digs on what's wrong,
> who's to blame, what should be done, it's all just rather tiresome.
>
> i've increasingly find myself very sympatico with Larry Slade, the burnt
> out anarchist in the Iceman Cometh, watching from the grandstand and all
> that, sipping my rye.
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> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:41 PM, <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
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>> While I agree with some of what he says, this essay is a mess.  I mean
>> nothing personal (I admit, often I do), just a very different take.
>>
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>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Sent: Wed, May 2, 2012 4:49 pm
>> Subject: Quite Pynchon-related but obliquely, thematically
>>
>>  This guy is good, I think...
>>  http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8859-violence-usa-the-warfare-state-and-the-brutalizing-of-everyday-life
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>


-- 
"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all creeds
the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in
reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness
groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest
urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
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