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

[Mark Kohut]

That would be the one for me too....I think I stopped out of it long ago,
white boy's bewilderment shuffle
and never went back....(although I looked back often)




On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 11:47 AM Cagliostro_the_Impossible <
Cagliostro_the_Impossible at protonmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> 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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