P. Speculating on P.

[Mark Kohut]

Misc. To All:

Because in a recent Atlantic piece about the surreal craziness of these
United States, an excerpt from his woefully imprecise book,
FANTASYLAND, Kurt Anderson alludes to this piece and book by saying there
was only a simple paragraph about possible alternate theories
of JFK's assassination in it showing that conspiracy beliefs weren't
immediate as they are now, he sez,  I researched a bit.

I learned this: it appeared first as a lecture in 1963, when JFK was either
still alive or JUST dead, and was largely reprinted here
and in the book as is.....no research AT ALL on any possible conspiracy
theories by one year later.

The sentence was added which might signal to a better mind than Anderson's
the opposite of his statement. Requiring such a line less
than a year later???    And,. as with the uses of new words, such theories
surely existed verbally before they were written down........

History Editor.

On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 7:52 AM, Thomas Eckhardt <
thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> Definitely seconded!
>
> Hofstadter's most famous essay may be found here:
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> https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-am
> erican-politics/
>
> This is also highly recommended reading for M&D (e.g. with regard to books
> about Canadian nuns escaping from nunneries and, of course, historical
> conspiracy theories concerning Jesuits, Masons etc.).
>
>
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> On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 06:49:51 -0500
>  Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've read much of the major published stuff on Pynchon,
>> books and major articles and I cannot remember much
>> space given, as sources of his researched vision, to
>> Richard Hofstadter.
>>
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