V.V. (6) Boeing? 97.22

[jbor]

Not sure that Boeing Inc. would have been openly advertising the 
"feudal-homosexual element" of the modern aviation industry c. 1961. There
seems to be quite a heavy dose of sarcasm in the sentence you're referring
to as well: the word "democracy" in particular seems to be soaked in scorn.

best

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>From: "J L" <trailerman44 at hotmail.com>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: the stints approach
>Date: Mon, Dec 18, 2000, 7:04 PM
>

> There's a sentence in _V._ chapter 4 to do with modern aircraft as
> 'weapon-systems' and assigning a new nobility to maintenance crews
> (sorry haven't got the text here) which I find horribly unconvincing.
> It just shouts "Boeing technical manual" to me.
> I do wonder whether further knowledge of P.'s past would have the same
> effect on the more mysterious stuff that gets chewed over here.
> Ignorance is bliss.