23-03-2010, 04:23 AM
Swinging the fireplace poker, declaring the stage a "liberated zone," Abbie Hoffman introduced his movie wherein then-Mayor Daley assured us, "The police are not there to create disorder; the police are there to preserve disorder."
I read Thomas Pynchon's V and The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow but not Vineland.
Found this regarding the latter:http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/
Is it not ironic that the Marxist revolution came to town and among its first acts was the hiring of 16,500 tax collectors.
One could try to parody this, but like Orwell, would be caught out by the flood tide of reality.
We have met the Hope and Change and it is a line from Peter Townsend's Won't Get Fooled Again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHD0ZdhtmSQ
I read Thomas Pynchon's V and The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow but not Vineland.
Found this regarding the latter:http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/
Is it not ironic that the Marxist revolution came to town and among its first acts was the hiring of 16,500 tax collectors.
One could try to parody this, but like Orwell, would be caught out by the flood tide of reality.
We have met the Hope and Change and it is a line from Peter Townsend's Won't Get Fooled Again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHD0ZdhtmSQ