"Some faceless subgod of folly"

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

"He imagined that Zebra came from a planet in the star-system Sirius, 
had overthrown the Nixon tyranny in August 1974, and would eventually 
set up a just and peaceful kingdom on Earth where there would be no 
sickness, no pain, no loneliness, and the animals would all dance with joy."

Philip K. Dick: VALIS (chapter 7)

On 08.08.2015 05:43, Dave Monroe 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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> Pynchon-l /http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=nchon-l
>
>

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