Pynchon's Russia--US

[Thomas Eckhardt]

The ending of VL comes to mind. And, of course, the Russians in BE. 
Could be interesting to have a closer look.

Here is Allen Ginsberg on the subject:

"America you don’t really want to go to war.
America its them bad Russians.
Them Russians them Russians and them Chinamen. And them Russians.
The Russia wants to eat us alive. The Russia’s power mad. She wants to 
take our cars from out our garages.
Her wants to grab Chicago. Her needs a Red Reader’s Digest. Her wants 
our auto plants in Siberia. Him big bureaucracy running our fillingstations.
That no good. Ugh. Him make Indians learn read. Him need big black 
niggers. Hah. Her make us all work sixteen hours a day. Help.
America this is quite serious.
America this is the impression I get from looking in the television set.
America is this correct?"

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49305/america-56d22b41f119f

(Why the peculiar grammar? At the beginning, with "Them Russians", it 
appears to be a satirical jibe at not particularly bright US-Americans 
watching the news on the TV set, but "That no good" is Black Vernacular, 
no? And "Her"?)

For those in the Midwest: Keep warm!


Am 28.01.2019 um 12:43 schrieb Mark Kohut:
> First, sorry that this scan of the picture is sideways....I thought I could
> turn it right side up but I don't know how.Just turn your head a little--or
> your phone/computer, haha.
>   Second, remember *The Realist *rag?---if you are old enough.
> Third and most substantively, and the reason I scanned this, think about P
> and his oeuvre-length geopolitical doubling of the USA and Russia-- and
> here, in 1962, The Cold War about to have its hottest moments....and what a
> cartoon, eh?
> 
>  From a paperback of the sixties, THE NEW RADICALS, a collection.
> 
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