It's Pynchon's world, we only try for a little privacy within it

[Paul Mackin]

On 11/14/2012 9:26 AM, rich wrote:
> not sure what you mean by "Le Carre is not liked and somehow
> influential to Pynchon for nothing"
>
> if there's anything about this scandal it's more like Homeland--the
> privileged and well-connected and how they fuck things up. Personally
> I think Petreaus get more praise than he really deserves. Iraq and
> Afghanistan are lost wars-only the casualty numbers keeps them from
> being thrown in with Vietnam. For the most pasrt the US military is
> highly trained and skilled--how they have been led is if you listen to
> folks like Thomas Ricks something that hasnt really been debated all
> that much.
>
> LeCarre though a great novelist has become a kind of crank
> unfortunately. the anti-americanism has become a bit stale imho


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/opinion/dowd-reputation-reputation-reputation.html?hp

See last five paragraphs.

P



>
> rich
>
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> G-men spy on our spies; they rat on each other to our politicians. Pure
>> Pynchon. a knotted mcCarthyism, so to compress. their love interests harass
>> which breaks open the whole military/ corporate knot. Some.
>>
>> Le Carre is not liked and somehow influential to Pynchon for nothing. One
>> can almost imagine
>> this pentagon quadrangle--oops, pentangle ( or more) ---in GR, or
>> time-changed, AtD.
>>
>>
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