20-08-2010, 06:44 PM
More good stuff.
As an aside...
The title of St Clair's book is a play on counterculture artist Richard Farina's novel Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me . Farina died in 1966, in a motorcycle accident, two days after the book was published. Farina's wife, Mimi, was Joan Baez' sister.
Thomas Pynchon's masterwork, Gravity's Rainbow, is dedicated to his departed friend Richard Farina.
As an aside...
Quote:Jeffrey St. Clair is the author of Been Brown So Long It Looked Like Green to Me: the Politics of Nature
The title of St Clair's book is a play on counterculture artist Richard Farina's novel Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me . Farina died in 1966, in a motorcycle accident, two days after the book was published. Farina's wife, Mimi, was Joan Baez' sister.
Thomas Pynchon's masterwork, Gravity's Rainbow, is dedicated to his departed friend Richard Farina.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war