Pynchon's Russia--US

[Thomas Eckhardt]

And, of course, in GR...

Am 31.01.2019 um 21:41 schrieb Mark Kohut:
> And in AtD....
> 
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 3:20 PM Thomas Eckhardt 
> <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de <mailto:thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>> wrote:
> 
>     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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