9-11 box cutters 11 september utility knives

[malignd at aol.com]

I am a fan of Mailer's, for better and worse.  What I remember best was an article he wrote I think for Rolling Stone in which he argued that if one allowed for certain dotted line connections between Cuban nationalists, the CIA and the mob, much fell into reasonable sense.  It wasn't definitive and proved nothing, but was, as Mailer could  be, smart and provocative.

I remember that malignd has expressed admiration for Mr Mailer, so perhaps would concur.




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Pynchon - er, Maxine - mentioned one of the most compelling indicators, the shorting of airline stock.  some people made money off it.  Maybe they were just playing a hunch. 
W /r/t BE which really is where I am interested in going, i'm trying to remember where Norman Mailer wrote re the JFK assassination words to the effect that this is a topic that will attract efforts from all the best writers of this time. Maybe in the author's preface to Oswald's Story?
I remember that malignd has expressed admiration for Mr Mailer, so perhaps would concur. 
At any rate, it was worthy, in Mailer's estimation, of copious study and evaluation, and resulted in a narrative marked by Mailer's interests and passions: examining the character of Oswald in depth and spinning out remarkable insights in many directions.
The same noteworthiness is true of 11 Sep, and apart from some of the scenes in AtD, BE contains the bulk of Mr Pynchon's efforts in that direction, thus far.
In accordance with the style he's developed it's not surprising that Mr Pynchon wouldn't choose to ignore tantalizing hints of some sort of foul play...and it's also not surprising that his take is more subtle than to be taken in any kind of truther net. Suspicion of the US gov't is reasonable after cointelpro, iran-contra, gulf of tonkin, etc etc - weepers, any # of things, the 2000 presidential election! these things make the US a person of interest in any crime hereabouts, remember it came out that FBI was, well, not culpable but duked into the 1993 bombing? See emad salem eg.
  maxine's parents are opera habitues and antiwar demonstrators, but she is of the new generation, clubgoing and following the money.  As the Ferengi say, war is good for business.  And peace is good for business.  For Maxine, as for Doc, foul play is a cash nexus, but who will foot the bill?  Following her cash trail, she gets money from Stu Gotts, from March's ex, and from Windust's widow...
And of course Horst.  So her livelihood indicates there are those within society who support investigation of fraud, for their own reasons, and whether or not the investigator's credentials are current with the dominant culture. How and why she chose that field isn't directly narrated except by exposing her character, probably something like "that's where the fun is!"


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