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

[Matt Bormet]

These are all great - thanks to all for sharing.

Reading through Mumbo Jumbo, it struck me as perhaps even more in need of
annotations than GR - maybe someday some inspired PhD candidate will give
it a go.

And Yellow Back Broke Down Radio is 100% a rough outline of Blazing
Saddles, hard to argue otherwise. But ripping off a masterpiece of
literature led to a masterpiece of comedy.

On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 3:39 PM Cagliostro_the_Impossible via Pynchon-l <
pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:

> 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
>
>
> Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.
>
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> 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."
> >
> > Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.
> >
> > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> > On Sunday, October 18, 2020 12:12 PM, Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
> wrote:
> >
> > > 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!
> > > > Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.
> > > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ 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/
> > > > >
> > > > > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
> >
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