With no cable TV in Tarlac, I reverted back to life's simple pleasures such as reading a good book. In the process, I rediscovered how good Tom Wolfe is and his K-K-Kandy Kolored Tangerine Streamlined prose style (((!!!))) It's writing with crotch-grabbing style and kick-ass substance. Here's a quote from "The Intelligent Coed's Guide to America": "America's foreign policy has been and continues to be based upon war, assassination, bribery, genocide, and the sabotage of democratic governments..." It's written almost 30 years ago but still holds true today.
I got word from an unsolicited text message that Iraq ex-President Saddam Hussein had just been executed. Poor bastard. He became the It-Guy when Bush and company wanted something in a silver platter for 9/11 (Bin Laden was either too far or too close), something that will make Daddy prouder -- and extra richer by Gazillion times. These were the thoughts that weighed me down throughout the day.
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Your Tom Wolfe quote is a bit misleading. As is clear from the piece, that is not his own opinion. It is that of the speakers at the literary conference he was attending.
A few pages later in the piece he writes of Gunther Grass, who lived through Nazi Germany, pooh-poohing the claims of fascism. In a much quoted passage, Wolfe writes of Grass, "He sounded like Jean-François Revel, a French socialist writer who talks about one of the great unexplained phenomena of modern astronomy: namely, that the dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe."
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