Letter Bomb

[Dave Monroe]

Sontag, Susan. "The Imagination of Disaster."
   Commentary 40 (Oct 1965): 42-8.

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/the-imagination-of-disaster/

On Monday, September 15, 2014, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Thanks. Ironically (?), I used to get more of such shenanigans done @
work (esp. 2nd/3rd shift) than I have in the past 4 1/2 years of
unemployment. Here's @ least one additional addition since, off the  top of
my overprescriptioned head:
>
> Lippit, Akira Mizuta. Atomic Light (Shadow Optics).
>   Mpls: U of Minnesota P, 2005.
>
> http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/atomic-light-shadow-optics
>
> ... and here's something that just happens to be in my bedside stack:
>
> Schwenger, Peter. Fantasm and Fiction: On Textual Envisioning.
>   Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1999.
>
> http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=895
>
> ... underneath a buncha 60s/70s Marvel/DC/Charlton/et al. comics from the
dollar bin down the  street, of course.
>
> It's good to know somebody gets some use outta some of this stuff, @
least (see, e.g., p. 95 of Martin Eve's Pynchon and Philosophy).
>
> Always glad to see the list still going. It's been nigh unto two decades
for me here now, so ...
>
> On Monday, September 15, 2014, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>> Here is just a small. tiny really, example of Monroe's enormous
>> bibliography, given, freely, to us, and man, that word free, well, it
>> ain't one we use much these daze:
>>
>> Anyway, some recommended reading for anyone interested
>> ...
>>
>> Brians, Paul.  Nuclear Holocausts:
>>    Atomic War in Fiction,1945-1984.
>>    Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 1986.
>>
>> http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/nuclear/nh-supplement.html
>>
>> Ferguson, Frances.  "The Nuclear Sublime."
>>    Diacritics 14:2 (Summer 1984): 4-10.
>>
>> Schwenger, Peter.  Letter Bomb: Nuclear
>>    Holocaust and the Exploding Word.
>>    Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins UP, 1993.
>>
>> Solomon, J. Fisher.  Discource and
>>    Reference in the Nuclear Age.
>>    Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1991.
>>
>> Thta "final delta-t" might be a little less
>> infinitesimal than it seemed in 1973, but the clock is
>> still ticking ...
>>
>> http://www.bullatomsci.org/clock.html
>>
>> "Now everybody--"
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
wrote:
>>> I can't remember anything that wasn't on UHF and/or Saturday morning
teevee
>>> in the 70s anymore, so let me know as well. Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sunday, September 14, 2014, Michael Bailey <
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Was it this one
>>>> http://books.google.com/books/about/Letter_bomb.html?id=GeRYAAAAMAAJ
>>>>
>>>> Or this one?
>>>> http://www.bartlebysnopes.com/letterbomb.htm
>>>>
>>>> Probably the former. Right?
>>>>
>>>> On Sep 14, 2014 10:35 AM, "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Other than the title of this post, you give no clue to what you are
>>>>> calling a gem.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sunday, September 14, 2014, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Finally got round to reading this one, one of many on the theme,
>>>>>> Monroe cited and quoted for us. Too heavy, now, with theory, but
still
>>>>>> a gem.
>> -
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>
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