Rushdie/Pynchon

Adam J. Thornton adam at phoenix.Princeton.EDU
Wed Oct 23 11:33:05 CDT 1996


>      Isn't there some study of TWOZ, apparently credible, that asserts it 
>      is an economic allegory in support of supports the gold standard for 
>      money in America?

That's the way we read it in Middle School Economics.  No shit.

Now, the Oz connotations are particularly resonant in the Swarzkommando
mandala, which is a schematic map of the land of Oz.

Adam
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