#mao ii

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The future belongs to crowds.

Don DeLillo, Mao II

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[gregorygalloway]

54-year-old Don DeLillo’s 10th novel was published on 20 June 1991.

According to DeLillo’s editor, Nan Graham, DeLillo began formulating the novel with two folders, one marked “art,” the other “terror.” DeLillo himself cited seeing a photograph of J.D. Salinger published in The New York Post (the photographer had ambushed an unaware Salinger) in 1988 (with the headline "GOTCHA CATCHER!") and a photograph of the Unification Church mass wedding ceremony as the inspirations for the novel. “I didn't know it at the time,” DeLillo said, “but these two pictures would represent the polar extremes of "Mao II," the arch individualist and the mass mind, from the mind of the terrorist to the mind of the mass organization. In both cases, it's the death of the individual that has to be accomplished before their aims can be realized.”

Mao II was both a commercial and critical success, and received the PEN/Faulkner Award and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

[readingsandnotes]

When there is enough out-of-placeness in the world, nothing is out of place.

Don DeLillo, Mao II

[else-self]

Only shallow people insist on disbelief. You and I know better. We understand how reality is invented. A person sits in a room and thinks a thought and it bleeds out into the world. Every thought is permitted. And there’s no longer a moral or spatial distinction between thinking and acting.

Don Dellilo - Mao II

[quote-junkie]

Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.

Don DeLillo

-- “Mao II”

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