Nixon & GR

[Markekohut]

O Yes, and Nixon's deeply American sanctimoniousness..Eternal Puritan type ( no prescience here. Just the insight of an artist. 

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On Jan 16, 2013, at 9:48 PM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> This may all be true and I, for one, like it a lot....but I will defend my " prescience" observation
> In the context I laid in....( as you said, there is a book in this topic).....that is the context of
> Postwar self-sabotaging of the America that was coming into being. (See GR)....mcCarthyism
> ruining idealistic lives with ginned-up lies.....baking fear into the culture....spying ala FBI on each other.........
> One small bit of prescience is to have seen the hated Nixon, virtually, as an embodiment of this culture of self-spying and lies.......the Watergate cover-up as a metaphor for all that P thought he saw. And had. 
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> On Jan 16, 2013, at 6:57 PM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> One could write a book on this subject, and perhaps some ambitious
>> young scholar will do so....as we wait for this we might consider how
>> Nixon fits into the networks that GR explores, and how the old
>> network, the setting of the romance, the War, functions as the Puritan
>> American period does in The Scarlet Letter or in the Cruciable, but
>> the novel is about, its contemporaries and the lives in the balance,
>> and so the new network, and, of course, the new money; yes,  P's
>> concern is with new money and the Nixon period, not with the old
>> money, though readers have often focused on the Nazis and the Standard
>> Oil, ICI, and IG Farben Octopus, but just as P explains how Orwell has
>> been misread as saying something about the past, or as a propher, he
>> is neither, and neither is P prescient, but only writing about his
>> world, the new money world of Nixon, so of aerospace and defense
>> contracting, of oil, and natural gas, and of the alliances, yes, the
>> military industrial complex alliance,  formed around these domestic
>> opperations, in contrast with the international IG Farben and Standard
>> Oil and so on of the War Period...of the setting of the novel's
>> historical events, so we need to look, to a zone actually, but that
>> zone is not European History, but American Expereince circa 1970, and
>> so, as TSI and CL49 suggest, we need to look at real-estate operations
>> during the postwar period, and the new money invested there, in the
>> sunbelt, where the population explodes and so....Nixon.
>> 
>> To argue that the book declines as it brings this into focus, or
>> foregrounds it, is to engage in a selective misreading, as the
>> evidence of the theater that is America circa 1970, as aopposed to the
>> theatre that is the War in Europe is there from the very first
>> page....and when we meet Malcolm X, or Little, and as we read on into
>> the post-Invisible Man Nixonian  American Experience, there can be no
>> mistake as to where we are: in Nixonland.