"Bin Laden May Not Exist"

[Mark Kohut]

Well remembered and stated. 

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On Jun 22, 2014, at 10:03 AM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think we did a fine job with the political themes.  Neo-Liberalism
> and Late-Capitalism were explored in depth. The use of Conspiracy was
> examined. We discussed the family because it's impossible to ignore
> the fact that Pynchon's politics are played out in his fictional
> families.  In Bleeding Edge families have nice boys, good kids, given
> a great education...who turn out to be Ice Monsters...families have
> daughters they protect from the struggle they wage to keep their
> neighborhoods, who, because of cultural and technological forces (Tube
> & Co.) turn, not completely, but turn to power fascism....and so on.
> We discussed this at some length. Unless I dreamed it.
> 
> 
> OK, back to the game most Americans don't know is going down.
> 
> Peace,
> 
> Al
> 
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 6:00 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The interview sounds wrong to me in possibility and from the word ' trendy'
>> on. It has been disavowed by Ms. Jackson.
>> 
>> "Late capitalism" in BLEEDING EDGE has been discussed. And the usual
>> miscellany of other aspects, many of them 'political'. A key cultural (
>> embodied politics )aspect of BE is what made many plisters dislike it: pop
>> has totally won. Also pretty clear that money took NYC and in the way
>> novels write themselves larger than their literalness.....
>> 
>> And the future awaits anyone on the paths less traveled now on the plist.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>> On Jun 22, 2014, at 3:01 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>> What “Bleakhaus” couldn’t have known when he or she wrote this is that,
>>>> while Against the Day (2006) may touch on 9/11 symbolically, his 2013 book
>>>> Bleeding Edge deals with it literally—it’s part of the book’s plot. <<
>> 
>> Very true.
>> 
>> Unfortunately neither reviewers nor plisters seem to be interested in
>> discussing the novel's construction of 11 Sep ... They discuss Bleeding Edge
>> as family novel and/or NYC novel. The basic political dimension of the plot
>> has not been analyzed by anyone so far.
>> 
>> On 21.06.2014 21:22, Dave Monroe wrote:
>> 
>> http://touch.dangerousminds.net/all/bin_laden_may_not_exist_did_thomas_pynchon_give_this_9_11_interview
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