Nobel, Snowden, Pynchon

[alice wellintown]

wrestle with moses: jane jacobs

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/books/05garner.html?_r=0
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 7:25 AM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com
> wrote:

>
> But the opportuity cost!
> Look at that cacki, daxie, footzie fly!
>
> Yeah, but AGTD is the book that, actually, like, puts the world on
> blleding edge and takes on American Terrorism. So, I wonder if a Jewish
> Joke Book of the Dead Dots that wrestles with Moses isn't the burp after
> the Big Mac Pacman Attack? Do the Nobel people like, even get the Jewish
> Jazz here? Will the fart jokes clear the room for most non-New Yorkers?
>
> Funny book. Hits the culture in the Bull Market, but can a European Bear
> it? I have my doubts. Though I shouldn't put all European in one Union.
> Kick the Germans out. Most of Europe loves-hates Germany as much as they
> love-hate the US.  And at least we have a black president. That nazi bitch
> that Germany will soon re-elect makes the fasciust in Japan look like
> Ronald Ray-Gun.
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 7:10 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
> lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>
>>
>> Could imagine that the political context into which 'Bleeding Edge' is
>> published now (and which also gets debated in some of the reviews) will
>> raise the probability that Pynchon gets the Nobel Prize this year. They
>> always - for better and for worse - consider the political impact of their
>> decision. Politically the USA have come, or so it looks to many Europeans,
>> to stand for Guantanamo, Abu Ghuraib, killer drones and global surveillance
>> (in general: for the disrespecting of international law and human rights).
>> But sooner or later the Nobel committee has to give its prize to an
>> US-American author again. While Cormac McCarthy and Philip Roth, who both
>> would deserve it in terms of sheer aesthetics too, are in Europe not
>> observed as representatives of an alternative and better America, this is
>> different with Pynchon who earned that dissident reputation already during
>> the first phase of his career, especially with 'Gravity's Rainbow'. And
>> that's of course the book they will give it to him for. But 'Bleeding
>> Edge', among all its other benefits, is taking the issue of technology &
>> control to the 21st century.
>>
>> I just called my London bookie and put 10 000 Euros on Tom.
>>
>>
>
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