more Re: pynchon-l-digest V2 #1446

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy
--- Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com> wrote: 
> Pynchon has brought to the attention of millions of readers 
> (especially college students who weren't around when The Sovereign 
> State of ITT, "was a popular best-seller in the sixties") who in GR 
> learn, many,  perhaps most,  for the first time,  ugly truths about 
> the way international corporations played both sides in WWII and thus
> profited from the Holocaust.

Millions? Have there been as many as that? How come I have still,
*still*, only ever met one single female human being who has ever
finished GR outside of an academic context? (And she's a peach, let me
tell you...) I think that P's sales are consistent because of folks
like you and me who buy copy after copy and give them away to people we
hope will read them but don't.  And in the context of a wild-ass
fiction like GR people don't so much "learn...ugly truths" as toy with
the possibilities -- tingle with joy at the very idea of our cozy
corporate "evil" loose in the world and rubbing shoulders with the real
article -- indeed, we are "dizzy with it's grandeur". 

Beat me bite me whip me
Mark

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