Comments on: The Camp of the Saints http://unamusementpark.com/2012/08/the-camp-of-the-saints/ the online encyclopedia of race relations Thu, 13 Jun 2013 05:04:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Parked in Amusement http://unamusementpark.com/2012/08/the-camp-of-the-saints/#comment-49016 Parked in Amusement Wed, 15 Aug 2012 02:56:04 +0000 http://unamusementpark.com/?p=11448#comment-49016 The Pulitzer-eligible festive-depressive quote of this entire thread is Californian’s who stated: “….(After I re-started to read this book,) my thought was: ‘Hey, this isn’t the future…it’s already happened!’” — The reactive laugh I experience from the foregoing made my week.

Four years ago my own heavily underlined/highlighted reading of Camp cranked to a halt at page 148 of 314. Tonight I commence immediately therefrom.

Page after page, the book is replete with gems like (page 82): “…at that very moment, 32,742 schoolteachers hit on the subject for the next day’s theme: ‘Describe the life of the poor suffering souls on board the ships and express your feelings toward their plight in detail’…and the dear little angel(s) — all of them simple, childish souls and hearts — will (dutifully spill out) four pages worth of infantile pathos…’”

]]> By: Parked in Amusement http://unamusementpark.com/2012/08/the-camp-of-the-saints/#comment-49007 Parked in Amusement Wed, 15 Aug 2012 02:30:26 +0000 http://unamusementpark.com/?p=11448#comment-49007 Along the same lines (general lines) of Camp de Raspail (ok, so I don’t know French), this entry you are reading is simply a note to self to buy/read “Cry Wolf: A Political Fable” by Paul Lake. I have no connection in the least to writer or publisher…this is at face value…I made a note of this (to self) four years ago and never bought it during the entire intervening period but it simply looks like a must-read and I promise you (sorry for the delay!) to order it before or during this pending weekend.

]]> By: Unamused http://unamusementpark.com/2012/08/the-camp-of-the-saints/#comment-48808 Unamused Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:18:46 +0000 http://unamusementpark.com/?p=11448#comment-48808 Amusing troll I believe. Although I did just hear the strangest clicking noise on my phone line…

]]> By: Georgia Resident http://unamusementpark.com/2012/08/the-camp-of-the-saints/#comment-48800 Georgia Resident Mon, 13 Aug 2012 12:40:19 +0000 http://unamusementpark.com/?p=11448#comment-48800 “The kitty on the lower right appears to be giving a Nazi salute. ”

“I am going to petition SPLC to include your site and maybe they can stop you before you strap explosives to kittens and send them into a black church or mosque.”

This is either a very amusing variety of troll, or a dead-serious idiot.

]]> By: John D http://unamusementpark.com/2012/08/the-camp-of-the-saints/#comment-48750 John D Mon, 13 Aug 2012 03:31:53 +0000 http://unamusementpark.com/?p=11448#comment-48750 Boy, did Raspail nail it. The handwriting was clearly on the wall, even back then. He just had balls enough to write about it. I doubt it’d ever get published today.

And Chip Smith, thanks for The Node recommendation. I just purchased it.

]]> By: Randoms « Foseti http://unamusementpark.com/2012/08/the-camp-of-the-saints/#comment-48451 Randoms « Foseti Fri, 10 Aug 2012 01:55:10 +0000 http://unamusementpark.com/?p=11448#comment-48451 [...] – Unamused on The Camp of the Saints [...]

]]> By: Martel http://unamusementpark.com/2012/08/the-camp-of-the-saints/#comment-48439 Martel Fri, 10 Aug 2012 00:38:07 +0000 http://unamusementpark.com/?p=11448#comment-48439 I’m halfway through it… It’s hard to believe it was written in 1973.

On. The. Nose.

]]> By: Californian http://unamusementpark.com/2012/08/the-camp-of-the-saints/#comment-48437 Californian Fri, 10 Aug 2012 00:37:01 +0000 http://unamusementpark.com/?p=11448#comment-48437 I read Camp of the Saints way back when and could not put it down until I finished it. It was a disturbing vision of the future.

I picked the book out of a dusty box in the garage last year and started reading it again, then stopped. My thought now was: “Hey, this isn’t the future…it’s already happened!”

Anyway, get the book, read it, and contemplate Babylon…

]]> By: WhiteHistory http://unamusementpark.com/2012/08/the-camp-of-the-saints/#comment-48408 WhiteHistory Thu, 09 Aug 2012 20:46:42 +0000 http://unamusementpark.com/?p=11448#comment-48408 Also, the SPLC has reviewed the book.

Spoiler: They don’t like it.

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2001/spring/blood-on-the-border/fear-and-fantasy

]]> By: WhiteHistory http://unamusementpark.com/2012/08/the-camp-of-the-saints/#comment-48402 WhiteHistory Thu, 09 Aug 2012 19:55:04 +0000 http://unamusementpark.com/?p=11448#comment-48402 Thanks for the recommendation, I just bought it used on Amazon.

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