globalization & Pynchon?

[calbert at tiac.net]

Doug:
> P's novels show complex causality, don't they? Nature is a force to be
> reckoned with, even as humans try to bend Her to their will. In their
> attempts -- attempts which often involve humans acting through the
> agency of a corporation -- humans make bad shit happen that we can
> catalog alongside strictly "natural" disasters.

I like the "which OFTEN".....


 We have earthquakes
> and we also have Nazi war crimes and genocide which put actual profits
> into the pockets of actual corporations (which support actual
> politicians...). 

But do those corps direct the actions from which they benefit? That 
war is a profit making opportunity is not in dispute - what is is the 
location of these bodies in the casual chain, and again, I don't see 
them wagging the dog.....they respond to phenomena in the only 
way they are programmed to, to wit - "What's in it for us?" 

 Consider the rainbow, a phenomenon of Nature -- P
> links it to the Rocket's path, and to the religious-mythic-imperial
> systems that take it as a metaphor for God's covenant with man: 
> Nature, technology, religion/myth/politics, P plays with it all.

Are the above component elements of the rainbow or simply situated 
in its umbra?

love,
cfa, who promises that once he leaves the office, he cannot spam 
the list further until monday.....