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[rich]

that's true but the opposite end of spectrum is true as well which may work
well in a political pamphlet or op-ed but for in a novel, not so well.
Granted I'm being picky as much of what Pynchon says I dont necessarily
disagree with.


On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 10:14 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> The trouble with Pynchon is he is always finding ways to say things
> instead of beating around the bush in the sweet dreamland of aesthetic
> pleasure.
> > On Oct 9, 2017, at 5:45 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > an example of that which makes much of ATD such uninspired reading,
> aestehtically-speaking
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 2:51 PM, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
> > “WE LOOK AT the world, at governments, across the spectrum, some with
> more freedom, some with less. And we observe that the more repressive the
> State is, the closer life under it resembles Death. If dying is deliverance
> into a condition of total non-freedom, then the State tends, in the limit,
> to Death. The only way to address the problem of the State is with
> counter-Death, also known as Chemistry,” said Flaco.
> >
> > He was a survivor of Anarchist struggles in a number of places both
> sides of the Atlantic, notably Barcelona in the ‘90’s. Provoked by the
> bombing of the Teatro Lyceo during a performance of Rossini’s opera William
> Tell, the police had rounded up not just Anarchists but anybody who might
> be in any way opposed to the regime, or even thinking about being.
> Thousands were arrested and sent “up the mountain” to the fortress of
> Montjuich which crouched thuglike over the city as if having just assaulted
> it, and when the dungeons there were full, prisoners were kept chained in
> warships converted to prison ships, lying at anchor down in the harbor.
> >
> > “Fucking Spanish police,” Flaco said. “In Cataluña they are an occupying
> army. Any of the prisoners of ‘93 who weren’t Anarchists before going into
> Montjuich arrived rapidly at the heart of the matter. It was like finding
> an old religion again, one we’d almost forgotten. The State is evil, its
> divine right proceeds from Hell, Hell is where we all went. Some came out
> of Montjuich broken, dying, without working genitals, intimidated into
> silence. Whips and white-hot irons are certainly effective for that. But
> all of us, even those who had voted and paid our taxes like good
> bourgeoisie, came out hating the State. I include in that obscene word the
> Church, the latifundios, the banks and corporations, of course.”
> >
> > Against the Day, chapter 28
> >
>
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