I've gotcher Gabriel Ice right here:

[Robin Landseadel]

It's funny how people find the most direct of the author's "Political  
Statements" to be satiric.

Again—sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Sometimes, when we read a  
"Far Left" screed from Pynchon, we are hearing the author's  
"authentic" voice.

I don't read any voices in BE successfully articulating countervailing  
arguments. The ones attempting to voice opposing views are all  
depicted as villains in this book.

Again, this is not the 'droid you seek. It's another author that  
balances the extremes of political dialog. Pynchon's an old leftie  
from way back.
On Oct 6, 2013, at 6:14 AM, Fiona Shnapple wrote:

> Muckraking of this sort does damage, not good. It keeps people  
> ignorant and feeds them the same old mush. It is lazy and stuffed  
> bloated pronouncements about some evil thing called Wall Street.  
> Jesus. Where do these people live? On the Moon? Occupy a space  
> between your ears. Pay attention to the people.
>
> On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Fiona Shnapple <fionashnapple at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
>
> I am so pleased that Pynchon, though sympathetic to those who now  
> call themselves Left of the NY Times (how Left is that? Ptnchon asks  
> in BE), satirizes them in BE. While the muckraking is important, and  
> we can't expect the NY Times, the Voice, Mother Jones, to do it  
> without, at the same time, turning off anyone with half a brain--- 
> who see how the yellow fog journalism, frecked with red, now  
> brownish blood, drips down the drain into the waste counterpunching  
> its shadow boxing partners.
>
>
>
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>
> On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net 
> > wrote:
> "When Republicans make their pilgrimages to Wall Street for money to  
> help take back the Senate next year, there may be no hotter ticket  
> than a party at Paul Singer's. The 69-year-old hedge fund  
> billionaire's co-op apartment at the Beresford, a hulking Italian  
> Renaissance building on Central Park West whose celebrity residents  
> have included Jerry Seinfeld, Glenn Close, and Helen Gurley Brown,  
> can draw scads of high-finance players. The haul for a dinner event  
> has been known to run to $1.4 million, and Singer himself has no  
> trouble writing a $1 million check to a super-PAC. He's been  
> described as a "fundraising terrorist" for his persistence in  
> twisting arms, a skill that has helped drive a major strategic shift  
> among Big Finance donors, who favored Obama in 2008 but now  
> overwhelmingly back the GOP."
>
> http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/07/paul-singer-elliott-republican-fundraiser
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> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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