Sure sign of madness, wasRE: globalization & Pynchon?

[calbert at tiac.net]

> There is a passage in V dealing with the "dog days" of August.....it
> details the toll of various accidents and disasters around the
> world...I cannot glean any intent to make corporations
> liable.......Why is this passage there?


"These were mass deaths. There were also the attendant maimed, 
malfunctioning, homeless, lorn. It happens every month in a 
succession of encounters between groups of living and a congruent 
world which simply does not care. Look in any yearly Almanac, 
under "Disasters" - which is where the figures above come from. 
The BUSINESS IS TRANSACTED month after month after month."

(V, Pgs. 290-1, Perennial/Harper& Row)

This is not Stencil, Mondaugen or Van Wijk speaking - it is 
undeniably the author.....


love,
cfa