"If we accept the notion that using power against the powerless is wrong..."

[villager]

"....a clear set of corollaries begins to emerge. We become able to distinguish, as populations (though not always their rulers) have usually been able to do, between outlaws and evil-doers, between outlawry and sin. Not much analysis is needed, because it is someting we can sense in all its dead-serious immediacy. 'But all they are is bandits,' the rulers whine indignantly, 'motivated only by greed.' Sure. Except that, having long known the difference between theft and restoration, we understand the terms of the deal whereby outlaws, as agents of the poor, being more skilled and knowledgeable in the arts of karmic readjustment, may charge no worse than an agent's fee, small eough to be acceptable to their clients, ample enough to cover the risks they have to take, and we always end up loving these folks, we cheer for John Dillinger, Rob Roy, Jesse James, at a level of passion usually reserved for sports affiliation."

--Thomas Pynchon, from the introduction
to Jim Dodge's novel "Stone Junction"

[villager]

1. punting for Pynchon

n/t

[villager]

2. one more for Fup...

[baby_mouse]

3. K&R nt