NP but P told us to read him. Ishmael Reed.

[Cagliostro_the_Impossible]

I remember 1972. I remember Mumbo Jumbo. In 1973, Pynchon told us where all those Masonic Mysteries came from... We should listen...

But beware Hassan-e-Sabbah and his gang of Assassins! Our discussions should be encrypted, or perhaps we agree on a set on intermediaries, go off the grid, and out into the desert, the Taklamakan desert, the place of no return, under the protection of the descendants of Tamerlane...

But in all honesty, yes I would indeed be all for a group read of Ishmael Reed, perhaps start with Mumbo Jumbo?

I cede the floor to the committee!


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On Sunday, October 18, 2020 3:14 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> The experience here. The complexity of presenting it. The largeness of
> its CRITICAL/moral vision yet the grounded fierceness of that vision.
>
> Gawd, I have wasted much of my reading life in not reading Ishmael Reed more
> and following his very life, I say.
>
> Anyone up for a Group Read before it is too late to save our pale
> prejudices?
>
> Do we think TRP and he are some kind of friends, occasional pen pals at
> least?
>
> https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/16/the-tragedy-of-stanley-crouch/
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