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Rich Romeo writes:

there is a distance 
 to Pynchon's writing in M$D vis-a-vis the E.I.C.--he tackled the 
 octopus-like workings of IGF, so I'm assuming he didn't want to go the route 
 of heightened paranoia in M&D with the EIC--the paranoia/connections fractal 
 is so "absent" in M&D,
 
and:

Pynchon is 
 aware that he is writing for the present in an historical context, which may 
 explain the lack of the proliferation of heightened paranoia in the book.


And I respond:  The man was probably doing less drugs too, and that may have 
something to do with lack of paranoid vibes.