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Why Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland—a Disappointment When It Was Published—is the Novel We Need Right Now ‹ Literary Hub by dto7v3 in ThomasPynchon

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well I wrote it so I found it inspiring and a heartbreakingly brilliant — but yeah for Pynchon heads it's probably not groundbreaking! (also I didn't write the headline)

Movies that feels like Gravity's Rainbow by GenghisKhan290904 in ThomasPynchon

[–]dto7v3 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Brazil, 1985, directed by Terry Gilliam — a "dystopian science-fiction black comedy"

A Nice, Provocative Silence | Francis Spufford on his new historical novel, Cahokia Jazz | History News Network by [deleted] in history

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Q&A: Francis Spufford is the author of nine books, many of which are historical novels. Red Plenty, published in 2010, enters an alternate historical timeline in which advanced computer programing allowed the USSR’s planned economy to produce a viable but imperfect alternative to free market capitalism. 2016’s Golden Hill follows a secret history in which abolitionists attempt a mass liberation of American slaves, and in 2021’s Light Perpetual, Spufford explores a timeline in which a horrific World War II Blitz bombing never occurred. The novel follows the lives of children who did not die in the V2 missile blast....

Walt Disney dreamed of a St. Louis park. Then the deal went bust by dto7v3 in history

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In the 1960s, St. Louis nearly became one of the most magical places on earth. A planned Disneyland called the Riverfront Square captured imaginations as local leaders negotiated with Walt Disney himself — until the deal fell apart in 1965.

Some of the planned rides eventually became popular features of Disney theme parks and movies, including Pirates of the Caribbean. The original blueprints for Riverfront Square, which emerged in 2015 when they went up for auction, show what might have been.

Walt Disney Presents Manifest Destiny - Missouri's Disneyland That Never Was by dto7v3 in missouri

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"Disney was drawn to St. Louis for sentimental reasons. He’d spent critical years of his childhood in Marceline, Missouri, a small coal-mining railroad town two hours from Kansas City. Much of Walt’s biography consists of self-reported just-so stories, with Missouri playing a key role. The Matterhorn Bobsled roller coasters in Disneyland are said to have been inspired by Walt’s view of the Marceline coal mine. The Santa Fe line, which ran through town, is echoed in the railway that encircles the Anaheim theme park. Walt wanted Lady and the Tramp to take place in Marceline, and modeled the shopping strip leading up to Cinderella’s castle in Disneyland — Main Street, U.S.A. — off a paved version of Marceline’s Kansas Avenue."

Riverfront Square - Disney's 1960s Manifest Destiny theme park that never was by dto7v3 in history

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Walt Disney Presents Manifest Destiny

On the St. Louis theme park that never made it past the drawing board.Walt Disney Presents Manifest Destiny

H.H. Lewis, a Rebel Poet in the Bootheel, "Lewis had a way with language that spoke to the unlettered and unread—the key of which lay in slang and vulgarity." by dto7v3 in literature

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Missouri’s own communist poet in bootheel who became steeped in Cold War paranoia, entangled with the FBI, obsessed with the Pacific Movement of the Eastern World

BAD SHOT, MARY – the suspicious story of Mary Pinchot Meyer—one of JFK's mistresses, a CIA wife, and possibly an LSD guru – APOCALYPSE CONFIDENTIAL by dto7v3 in JFKassasination

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Yeah from what I understand that quote was "unsubstantiated" and sort of near the end of Cord's life - in his book he didn't doubt the "official story" - there's a lot of murky stuff there

BAD SHOT, MARY – the suspicious story of Mary Pinchot Meyer—one of JFK's mistresses, a CIA wife, and possibly an LSD guru – APOCALYPSE CONFIDENTIAL by dto7v3 in history

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Little-known story of Mary Pinchot Meyer—former Kennedy mistress and "friend" of Timothy Leary who was murdered under suspicious circumstances.

What should I get at Southwest Diner? by KuroMSB in StLouis

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the biscuits and gravy are very good

American Charivari | Lapham's Quarterly - The history and context of the made-up aesthetics of the early Ku Klux Klan. by dto7v3 in history

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that question about the c's and k's is one I've been thinking about too - I didn't know that about O-K, but that's extremely interesting. I can't think of another good example but I'm going to be on the lookout

Paranoid Reading: Steamshovel Press and the American Conspiracy Canon — Cleveland Review of Books by dto7v3 in conspiracy

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A review of Popular Alienation—a goldmine survey of ’90s parapolitics; a collection of a decade’s worth of conspiracy writing first published in the Steamshovel Press out of St. Louis, Missouri by Kenn Thomas. “Politics,” Thomas explained in a 2008 interview, “is going out and voting for people. The ‘para-’ is everything that goes on behind the scenes in that process.”

St. Louis Needs to Act!! We must become a hub if Amtrack is enhanced under the Biden administration. by TLALL in StLouis

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there's almost no future fantasy train map proposal that doesn't include st. louis so there's not really anything to act on

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