16-12-2012, 05:47 PM
(This post was last modified: 16-12-2012, 07:25 PM by Peter Lemkin.)
I have just finished the very excellent book [I recommend it highly to every/anyone] by H.P. Albarelli 'A TERRIBLE TRUTH -THE MURDER OF FRANK OLSEN AND THE CIA'S SECRET COLD WAR EXPERIMENTS' [Even if you think you know all about CIA-OSS-MI mind control and drug experimentation, you don't fully until you read this book - in addition to the other better ones!] I look forward to his next book on the JFK Assassination due out [after long delays to put in new material] in March! The reason it is on this thread is that one of two the NY State Prosecutor's men assigned to the 'cold' case was a Pynchon fan and used to quote Pynchon in regards to his investigation and things that happened. Albarelli also has a few Pynchon quotes in his book......
I have read two of TP's books, Gravity's Rainbow and The Crying of Lot 59. I'm a James Joyce fan and Pynchon shares much with Joyce's word play and complexity/multiple levels of meaning in writing. Both books I need to re-read now that I know MUCH more about what Pynchon had in mind....and didn't have the 'guide' I did with Joyce in my father, who had been reading Joyce all his adult life and taught me all he knew.
I have read two of TP's books, Gravity's Rainbow and The Crying of Lot 59. I'm a James Joyce fan and Pynchon shares much with Joyce's word play and complexity/multiple levels of meaning in writing. Both books I need to re-read now that I know MUCH more about what Pynchon had in mind....and didn't have the 'guide' I did with Joyce in my father, who had been reading Joyce all his adult life and taught me all he knew.
Quote:"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers."
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass