"Some faceless subgod of folly"

[Dave Monroe]

http://thomaspynchon.com/pynchons-review-of-donald-barthelmes-the-teachings-of-don-b/

On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 10:43 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> "'Watergate sure did get [Don] revved up,' wrote Thomas Pynchon, who
> met Don through Kirk and Faith Sale. By 1972, Pynchon said, Nixon had
> 'mutated into a desperate and impersonal force, no longer your
> traditional human-type President, but now some faceless subgod of
> folly.'"
>
> —from "Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme" by Tracy Dougherty (2009)
>
> http://tracydaugherty.com/nonfiction/hiding-man-a-biography-of-donald-barthelme/
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