Nixon & GR

[Bled Welder]

GR 679.

"Ordinarily, this would be Thanatz's notion of paradise, except that none
of the men can bear to be out of Dora-Dora was home, and they are homesick.
 Their "liberation" was a banishment.  So here in a new location they have
made up a hypothetical SS..."

Yadda.  You take a big event, you turn things on its head, you ask
clandestine questions, you exaggerate absurdly, maybe you toss in some
truths about this brutal world.  Et voila!


On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>wrote:

> On 1/19/2013 10:26 AM, alice wellintown wrote:
>
>> David is right I think, but the problem may be a failure to communicate.
>>> The term "Nixonland" may say something to most or many p-listers, but it
>>> probably needs some clarification.
>>>
>> WASTE is an acronymn for
>> We Ain't Saying That Exactly
>>
>> When we look at Nixonland, as the Sale excerpt I posted, form the
>> NYRB, _The World Behind Watergate_ , we see that this is what Pynchon
>> writes about in TSI, Lot49, and, of course, then in VL with Ray-gun,
>> and certainly, we see the S&M of it, either in the drug dropout
>> conspiricacy hippes and BV, or in the violent enthusiasts and their
>> kin and Golden Fangs or International Finance.
>>
>>
> The p-list  has taken a turn for the better since yesterday--we're talking
>  about the books for a change.
>
> Good-bye to the economy and moral dilemmas.
>
> P
>
>
>
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