MRS TRP/House of Morgan

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Vivek Ahlawat wrote:
> 
> I am reading a book called The House of Morgan by Ron
> Chernow; pleasantly surprised to see the editor was
> Mrs TRP. Wide canvas book, could interest the
> Pynchonites with a taste for Finance and Banking.

Interesting, right? Slothrop learns that his Harvard
conditioning was paid for by his parents. The middle man was
Lyle Bland. The money was Morgan Money. And Morgan and GE
pay for Marvy's Rocket Party. Slothrop, always changing
costumes, while being perused by Marvy (wearing a U.S.A.
white stetson hat, his men wear GR stenciled hats) puts on a
Hitler (as artist, painter) disguise. The money, follow the
money, the rockets, the oil, it's another quest, the
detective story. 

"They" function on several levels. They are We. We are They,
and we are all together. They control everything, even
dreams and sex.  They control nature, sometimes THEY are
nature, They control the Here-After, THEY  manufacture
lives, kill, and reconfigure time and space. The Henchmen,
like Richard M. are characters in Pynchon's fiction. Some of
the characters embody evil, Blicero and Greta, are two
examples. Pynchon is many things. In part,  he  is a
political writer, a satirist. He trgets the West. If you
read Weber his political/economic targets become clear.  He
has specific historical people, firms, events, in mind. VL
makes this clear. It's very hard to dig it out of GR. Very
difficult. But it is there. 

PS Foucault is not cited by McHale on sex and punishment,
but I think McHale is closer to him that Pynchon's sources
and this may be a problem. 

Weber, Freud, Norman O. Brown, Kraft-Ebbing, etc., these are
Pynchon's sources, not Foucault.