Nixon & GR

Paul Mackin mackin.paul at verizon.net
Sat Jan 19 10:15:54 CST 2013


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.
>

Yes, S&M.

When had Brock ever possessed her?

Children longing for discipline.


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