Well, let’s include this, with the following message to whoever originally wrote it: We hope you’ll get in touch with Barbara Burgower at Straight Arrow Books in order that we may properly credit this piece of writing and carry the customary copyright of permissions and acknowledgments in future editions of this book.
senator mcgovern had hinged his lxxxxcxx whole campaign on oppostion to the vietnam war, xxxxxxxxxxxx hoping to pursuade americans of its immorality and awakenong in them a sense of outrage and shame, he tried to demonstrate that the continuing american presnece in vietnam, the bombing and the xxxxxx suport of what he denounced as a corrupt dictatorship was an indication of xxx a xxxxx moral collapse in the x united states. He did not balme the people but the nixon administration / but the people did not xxxxx respond to his appeals, ironically yesterday morning he voted here in support of a local xxxxx proposition to outlwa the killing of a small bird known as the @mourning dove@ last night, as the nixon landslide gathered momentum that is precisely what heorge mcgovern became—a mourning dove.
i xxxxx asked him if the worst happened whether he would run again and he said: @emphantically: no i will not. i shall stay in the senate but xxx someone else will have to carry on what I began.@
frewuently in the last two weeks, senator mcgovern had spoken of a young p black man who xxxxxx predicted that the election was going to break his heart because he was going to g find out that the american people were not as high minded as he thought they were/typically, mr. mcgovern challenged this view, x saying that he believed in the goodness and decency of the people and that they would respond to their own consciences.
but the election did break his heart after all. he thought he saw xxx faces glowing with hope xx that the country would aim for higher standards, yearing for peace and an edn to the domestic anguish. but the voters turned their backs on him.
I was intentionally being a little bit cryptic, but it’s from “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72,” from the November chapter. It is one of the absolutely crucial books to read if you want to know about the American political process, at least the 20th century form of it.
I apologize, I thought there was some sort of weird formatting error. Rereading it with a clearer mind and eyes I realize that was intentional
That isn’t something I’d have gone out of my way to find and read but I’ll check it out after having a recommendation dropped in my lap. My local library only has it on audiobook. 17 hours! Great for a road trip 😄 it seems interesting, and by a very interesting author nonetheless
Yeah. I’m pretty sure the edition I read did not include all the strikeouts and misspellings, but for some reason the machine text I could find did, and I like this version of it better.
It was giving me very “House of Leaves” vibes, though I haven’t read that one either. Given the context I can see how those errors (?) add to the environment of the topic. It is still very jarring but I think Mr. Thomson would appreciate the way it reads
Well, let’s include this, with the following message to whoever originally wrote it: We hope you’ll get in touch with Barbara Burgower at Straight Arrow Books in order that we may properly credit this piece of writing and carry the customary copyright of permissions and acknowledgments in future editions of this book.
I’d appreciate that quote more if you could link the original context. It’s very hard to parse
This is how I see the comments:
I was intentionally being a little bit cryptic, but it’s from “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72,” from the November chapter. It is one of the absolutely crucial books to read if you want to know about the American political process, at least the 20th century form of it.
I apologize, I thought there was some sort of weird formatting error. Rereading it with a clearer mind and eyes I realize that was intentional
That isn’t something I’d have gone out of my way to find and read but I’ll check it out after having a recommendation dropped in my lap. My local library only has it on audiobook. 17 hours! Great for a road trip 😄 it seems interesting, and by a very interesting author nonetheless
Yeah. I’m pretty sure the edition I read did not include all the strikeouts and misspellings, but for some reason the machine text I could find did, and I like this version of it better.
It was giving me very “House of Leaves” vibes, though I haven’t read that one either. Given the context I can see how those errors (?) add to the environment of the topic. It is still very jarring but I think Mr. Thomson would appreciate the way it reads