Nixon & GR

[Bled Welder]

The US has *Pres*idents?  Name one, I don't believe you.  And con*temp*orary
ones...?

Sure.  Next I supposedly would belief you if you sez me this country
is *ac*twally
a *faz*zizt total-*tar*ium.

And that "writers" "write" about it!

Now I must azzurdly put it to you--why in the *fuck *would they do that?
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On Fri, Jan, 2013 at 9:25 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> To make mention of a derided contemporary US Prez, especially that Prez,
> is like just breathing for the likes of TRP.  Spice for the mix.  Not main
> courses. His GR river ran much deeper.
>
>
> On Friday, January 18, 2013, Markekohut wrote:
>
>> But he wasn't brought in for nothing. P made the connection.
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On Jan 18, 2013, at 9:33 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> No sentient reader could think GR is about Nixon.  He isn't even a bit
>> player. More like a quick toilet wipe.  Want to smell? Didn't think so.
>>
>> On Friday, January 18, 2013, alice wellintown wrote:
>>
>>> I'm a Slow Learner too. Took me almost that long to figure out that
>>> _Moby-Dick_  is about a whale.
>>> GR wasn't the only novel that year, and many of them were focused on
>>> the Nixonland that America had become after the War. K. Sales, author
>>> of the book I liked there at the NYTRB, was hip to a lot of the same
>>> shit.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Heikki Raudaskoski
>>> <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Thanks for unveiling what GR is about. What is more, its essence is
>>> > easy enough to memorize: Nixonland around 1970. For 25 years, I've
>>> > been trying to figure out what to make of the novel's encyclopedic
>>> > and stylistic exuberance, so the revelation was long overdue.
>>> >
>>> > However, the Finnish translation of GR, "Painovoiman sateenkaari",
>>> > comes out in April, and I don't know what to think of its fragilely
>>> > celluloid cover. E.g., what is this "B" on the side of the rocket?
>>> > Gottfried's buttocks?
>>> >
>>> > http://www.risingshadow.fi/library_link/images/books/6810.jpg
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Heikki
>>> >
>>> > P.S. C o n g r a t u l a t i o n s, tofuman!
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Wed, 16 Jan 2013, alice wellintown 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.
>>> >>
>>>
>>
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