Pynchon Quoted

[Monte Davis]

Ah, good old Steely: still getting from Pynchon exactly what he looks for.

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 2:38 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> From Jeffrey St Clair's Facebook news feed:
>
> Thomas Pynchon: "Never forget your Internet was Their invention, this
> magical convenience that creeps now like a smell through the smallest
> details of our lives, the shopping, the housework, the homework, the taxes,
> absorbing our energy, eating up our precious time. And there's no
> innocence. Anywhere. Never was. It was conceived in sin, the worst
> possible. As it kept growing, it never stopped carrying in its heart a
> bitter-cold death wish for the planet, and don't think anything's
> changed, kid. Call it freedom, it's based on control. Everybody connected
> together, impossible anybody should ever get lost, ever again. Take the
> next step, connect it to these cell phones, you got a total Web of
> surveillance, inescapable. You remember the comics in the Daily News? Dick
> Tracy's wrist radio? It'll be everywhere, the rubes'll all be begging to
> wear one, handcuffs of the future. Terrific. What they dream about at the
> Pentagon, worldwide martial law."
>
>
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