M&D c50 The Golem

[David Morris]

 “The function of science fiction is not only to predict the future, but to
prevent it."   Ray Bradbury
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*On Wednesday, April 3, 2013, wrote:

> A' and it's worth pointing out that if Doc Frankenstein would've just
> cut the monster a little slack and exercised a little responsibility for
> his creation, things might have turned out better. Is it too late? I'd like
> to know.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'fqmorris at gmail.com');>>
> To: bandwraith <bandwraith at aol.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'bandwraith at aol.com');>>
> Cc: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'pynchon-l at waste.org');>>
> Sent: Wed, Apr 3, 2013 10:09 pm
> Subject: Re: M&D c50 The Golem
>
> Mary Shelly resurrected the Golem most nobly. And it still has legs.
>
>  Frankenstein is about hubris, as is the Golem.
> Technology is Modern Hubris.
>
>  David Morris
>
> On Wednesday, April 3, 2013, wrote:
>
>> It has to be technology, no? But not just nuts and bolts (thru the neck),
>> but in the ephemeral and awesome, and especially, American sense, as in Leo
>> Marx's, "Machine in the Garden," or, David Nye's, "American Technological
>> Sublime." There's a tendril to O Boy, A' and to King Lud- Big and bad, but
>> not evil, at least not in the mythos of Americanism, as it had developed up
>> till recent times. Most of the news clips didn't show it, but in a few
>> grainy, bootleg, early digital videos, if you look closely, you can just
>> make out a big hairy arm clinging to the top of the north tower.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>> To: Lemuel Underwing <luunderwing at gmail.com>
>> Cc: “pynchon-l at waste.or <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
>> 'pynchon-l at waste.or');>
>> g“ <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Sent: Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:14 pm
>> Subject: Re: M&D c50 The Golem
>>
>> Heard of Google?
>>
>> On Wednesday, April 3, 2013, Lemuel Underwing wrote:
>>
>>> What is the Golem? Is it "the" American Religion?
>>>
>>>
>>>
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