Uh-Oh!  My last three published stories all criticize in some form the way
of life on this planet, particularly bureaucracies and (inbred) closed
systems, and use other planets and alien societies to call them into
question. Now everyone with such perception is going to know I am an
anarchist alien!! I must find my transporter and leave this world at once!

Earl (only my human-form name)

----- Original Message -----
From: Tresy Kilbourne <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, December 11, 1999 1:15 AM
Subject: Re: [CHOMSKY] Pynchon's anarchism


> on 12/10/99 8:35 PM, Bergesons at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
> > I was curious about your inclusion of Pynchon on this list.  What, in
your
> > mind, qualifies him as a "genuine" anarchist?
> Anarchism figures throughout his works, but especially in Gravity's
Rainbow.
> There is even a minor character who is an anarchist, Squalidozzi, and he
has
> several good lines in a Dostoevskian like dialog with the major character,
> Slothrop. Thematically it is reflected in his distaste for closed systems,
> bureaucracies, hierarchies, and control. Biographically it is reflected
> (IMO) in the trivia that one of his best friends, and old college
roommate,
> is the deep ecologist Kirkpatrick Sale.
>
> I learned just the other day that one of the so-called anarchist factions
at
> the WTO calls itself the Black-Clad Messengers, which is an allusion to
the
> secret couriers of the Thurn and Taxis postal system in The Crying of Lot
> 49.
>
> --
> Tresy Kilbourne
> Seattle WA
>