Nixon & GR

[Paul Mackin]

On 1/19/2013 11:04 AM, Bled Welder wrote:
> 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!

S&M all over again.

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