![]() As a young man, Pynchon co-wrote such a play, Minstral Island, with his Cornell classmate Kirkpatrick Sale, who later would become one of the world's most prominent and outspoken luddites. Pynchon has written works exploring the dangers of modern technology and, more specifically, ludditism. There a several tenuous threads of connection between Pynchon and the Unabomber. Bush use of the term, once again relating the time of AtD, with its "unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places" with current day America - unless, of course, "No reference to the present day is intended or should be inferred." Thew 18:49, (PDT)Įerily reminiscent of Theodore Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, the convicted American murderer known for his campaign of mail bombings, many of which were addressed to specific victims, intended by Kaczynski to draw attention to what he percieved as the ills of technology on modern society. This immediately brings to mind the post 9/11 George W. Built to look like a Venetian island, it still sits abandoned in Biscayne Bay. ![]() Calls to mind the Florida land speculation boom/bust of the 1920s in general and Isola di Lolando in particular. Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909), using concepts drawn from Physiognomy, early Eugenics, Psychiatry and Social Darwinism, devised the theory that criminality was inherited, and that the born criminal could be identified by physical defects, which confirmed a criminal as savage, or atavistic Wikipedia entryīurke Ponghill has some "swampland" for sale, it's in Colorado, wanna buy some? Comes with a bridge he'd be happy to sell you too. Similar to the way suicide bombers in the Middle East wear their munitions?īorn in Verona, Italy, Dr. The Legend of the Kieselguhr Kid, with parallels to the Legends of Zorro, the Lone Ranger and many others.Ĭouple dozen, in big bandoliers across his chest When the Manhattan Project sought a location to set up shop, Oppenheimer saw Los Alamos as a way to combine his two great loves (physics and NM) with the military's need of a secure and isolated place for the bomb's development. Robert Oppenheimer had a ranch in the Sangre de Cristos and loved to ride horseback through the area since he was 18. Southernmost subrange of the Rocky Mountains. The reaction impelled many people to emigrate to the U.S. They could look at the unsolved cases the way a banker might at instruments of debtĪnd bankers call those instruments negotiable paper.Īcts of European governments to suppress the widespread liberal revolutions of 1848. detective agencies like Pinkerton‘s and Thiel‘s ![]() The name also recalls the Kenosha Kid sequence of Gravity's Rainbow, which may have taken its name from a 1931 pulp fiction story by Forbes Parkhill, a two-fisted wild west adventure. Kieselguhr is more commonly called diatomite or diatomaceous earth. Nobel by mixing nitroglycerin with kieselguhr. Full text and images at The Modern Word Kieselguhr Kidĭynamite, a blasting explosive, was invented in 1867 by Alfred P.
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