Hardly TRP at all, yet............

[Markekohut]

My comments are just a gloss on some of TRP's tropes. In ATD, he writes about America after it is "discovered". 

All your and Vollman's truths are out of his vision as literally expressed, arguably.  (From the work, we can infer he may agree with all you say, yet, not part of his work (except that he does have to have a vision of human nature to be a major writer and I say he does.

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On Nov 6, 2012, at 10:15 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> i find all this columbus hating rather tiresome. as if native peoples were living in harmony and not murdering each other, too. read fathers & crows. it's standard reductions of a complicated world into an easily identifiable good guy-bad guy history which I find moronic. i dont condone wounded knee or cortez or like injustices but surely we can be a bit more discerning than chorusing cortez the killer. 
> 
> rich
> Nets just refer 
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Yeah it started with Columbus and spread from the asshole of Ohio out. 
>> 
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>> On Nov 5, 2012, at 5:27 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> amen to that...
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:13 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> there's enough mediocrity to go around no matter where you are
>>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>> Kirn is a novelist, as you may know, covering this election as a writer not like a journalist. I am not sending this to
>>>>> start plist conversations on the election or OHIO, yet I bet, in the way we do, it might and they will be better than some journalists'. 
>>>>>  
>>>>> I am sending it because the very novelistic judgment of "mediocrity" reminds me like a knocking stick of TRP's take on OHIO, via
>>>>> the Swiftian savaging of Columbus in that greater and greater book: Against the Day. And, of course, Columbus has naming resonance
>>>>> with the promise of America. Goodbye,Columbus (but I hope you come through for this election. Again.)
>>>>>  	The New Republic (@tnr)
>>>>> 11/5/12, 8:00 AM
>>>>> . at walterkirn says the fact that #Ohio, the cradle of U.S. mediocrity, gets to pick the president is terrifying bit.ly/SsPXxC
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