23-06-2010, 10:41 PM
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:Paul Rigby Wrote:I am delighted to have you confirm the veracity of my catchy little number -Quote:The BBC - enemy of free speech, bootlicking servant of power- in this thread.
So much for the cod-mystic "They"!
There's no cod in Thomas Pynchon...
But there was something distinctly fishy about that "They." The cynic might even conclude your readers were being offered a "sturgeon of the second freshness," as the old Russian proverb has it.
Happily, I am not a cyrillic cynic.
"There are three sorts of conspiracy: by the people who complain, by the people who write, by the people who take action. There is nothing to fear from the first group, the two others are more dangerous; but the police have to be part of all three,"
Joseph Fouche
Joseph Fouche