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

[Cagliostro_the_Impossible]

Sorry, but Ismael Reed is really triggering my autism today. Attached is a great Interview, and a window into his mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNIYkvSydi4

Also, his discussion on Malcolm X reminded me a an excellent essay by Murray Rothbard on Black Liberation (as pertinent then as it is now):

https://cdn.mises.org/Left%20and%20Right_3_3_2.pdf


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On Sunday, October 18, 2020 1:35 PM, Cagliostro_the_Impossible via Pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:

> "Someone once said that beneath or behind all political and cultural warfare lies a struggle between secret societies."
>
> -Ishmael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo
>
> This was misquoted at the beginning of Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shea's The Illuminatus! trilogy as:
>
> "The history of the world is the history of warfare between secret societies."
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> On Sunday, October 18, 2020 12:12 PM, Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com wrote:
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> > 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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> > > 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/
> > > >
> > > > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
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