Putin's Counter Revolution

[Mark Kohut]

And, even though you are not enamored of BLEEDING EDGE, doncha love the way TRP
puts THE NEWSPAPER OF RECORD in italics---I can't do it here---like one does books or movies on paper, that is using the style guidelines for FICTION? 

(And, although someone on the wiki criticized the copyediting for NOT italicizing "The Fatty Arbuckle Story" with Johnny Depp, Pynchon did not 'cause THAT movie ain't been made....)

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On Wed, 3/19/14, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: Putin's Counter Revolution
 To: pynchon-l at waste.org
 Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2014, 10:39 AM
 
 I'm not objecting to the coup's being
 illegal, but at the US being both complicit and using it as
 a means to resuscitate the Cold War. Actually, as per the
 latest NY Times headline - If Not a Cold War, Then a Return
 To a Chilly Rivalry - it already sounds as if, sabers
 sufficiently rattled, the US is retreating to its usual
 covert string-pullling role. So hopefully, we''l be spared
 any more Bomb Russia diatribes (save from the stray idiot on
 this list).
 
 Thomas Eckhardt expressed my feelings best (adding US
 propaganda into the mix):
 "My anger is mainly directed at western and especially
 German propaganda. I hate Nazis, and I hate being treated
 like an idiot."
 
 I've long since learned to read between the lines of what I
 read in the "paper of record," and I question everything. So
 it's particularly disappointing when I see people who are
 intelligent and analytical-minded (here, and among my
 real-world friends) accepting the official story
 unquestioningly.
 
 And if you think I'm just upset because I'm some sort of
 secretive Putin-worshipper, I get equally riled by local
 propaganda as well. Here in NYC, Di Blasio, way too
 progressive for the bankers and realtors, managed to become
 mayor after the officially sanctioned candidates
 self-destructed. While the NY Post is refreshingly honest -
 the night before the elections their front page blasted Di
 Blasio for spending his honeymoon years ago in Cuba - the NY
 Times plays it like they always do, slowly and steadily
 building up an image of Di Blasio as well-meaning, but
 bumbling and out of his element. I fucking hate propaganda,
 especially when it poses as "free press."
 
 Laura
 
 -----Original Message-----
 From: David Morris 
 Sent: Mar 18, 2014 6:06 PM
 To: "kelber at mindspring.com"
 
 Cc: P-list 
 Subject: Re: Putin's Counter Revolution
 
 
 So you think the uprising was illegal?  All uprisings
 are illegal, until they succeed. The powers in charge either
 accede to the political demands, or they are deposed, or the
 put down the uprising then and prosecute or kill the
 participants. Were you outspoken against the Egyptian
 2013uprising in which Morsi was
 deposed?   The mixed crowd in the Ukraine?
 Are they better off without Yanukovich?  They were
 willing to die for that result, but only after he started
 killing them in the streets.  Should they have backed
 down?
 -
 Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
 
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