„Was that how he'd died, she wondered, among dreams, crushed by the only ikon in the house? That only made her laugh, out loud and helpless: You're so sick, Oedipa, she told herself, or the room, which knew.“

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

Image via Guy Bourdin

PCL LinkDump bringt einen interesantes Link über die über die Unruhen in Watts. Wen diese Zeit, das Denken dieser Zeit und die Umstände die zu diesen Unruhen führen konnten interessiert sollte auf alle Fälle „A Journey Into The Mind of Watts“ von Thomas Pynchon lesen.

„Why is everybody worrying about another riot--haven't things in Watts improved any since the last one? A lot of white folks are wondering. Unhappily, the answer is no. The neighborhood may be seething with social workers, data collectors, VISTA volunteers and other assorted members of the humanitarian establishment, all of whose intentions are the purest in the world. But somehow nothing much has changed. There are still the poor, the defeated, the criminal, the desperate, all hanging in there with what must seem a terrible vitality. (…) Everything seems so out in the open, all of it is real, no plastic faces, not transistors, no hidden Muzak, or Disneyfied landscaping, or smiling little chicks to show you around. Not in Raceriotland. (…)“

Den Pynchontext gibt es bei dem San Narcisco College. Dort wird eine sehr gute Thomas Pynchon Seite geführt, wenn auch nicht alle Links funken.

update: „An ex-radical (maybe he still is) living around my parts, Pun Plamondon, wrote a book on his life with a great inside look at the Detroit riots. He was there with John Sinclair, White Panthers, MC5, etc. Detroit was poised to become the Midwest US's hippie heart, but the riots radicalized and drove out these groovy people.“

Here's a link to a look at Pun: Pun Kommentar geliehen von PCL LinkDump :-)

On this day in 1842, Ambrose Bierce was born in Horse Cave Creek, Ohio.

vgl. auch The Devil`s Dictionary

Bei der guten alten Dame New York Times gibt es einen Plan auf dem man sehen kann wo imaginäre New Yorker lebten, arbeiteten, spielten, dranken, spazieren gingen und nach Enten ausschau hielten. Man kann selber New Yorker hinzufügen. Das Projekt ist im Aufbau.

Link via BookBitchBlog

"The story of Ambrose Bierce told in the language of his "Devil's Dictionary", using hypertext language to create a fiendish translation of the life and works - and humour - of this acidic satirist and adventurer."

Gut gemacht… Aber Google macht deutlich, dass die "Konkurrenz" nicht schläft.

The Blog of Henry David Thoreau hatte ich ja schon an anderer Stelle erwähnt. Es gibt auch einen Thoreau Reader. Er ist wesentlich ausführlicher als der Blog, und hat den unschlagbaren Vorteil, dass dort nicht am Text manipuliert wurde.

The Blog of Henry David Thoreau.

„The text is from The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, ed. Bradford Torrey and Francis Allen, 14 vols. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906).

Each blog post is an excerpt from that day's entry in the Journal, and although not necessarily the complete entry, it is an integral and intact section thereof.“

Sieht interresant aus…