Sure sign of madness, wasRE: globalization & Pynchon?

[Richard Fiero]

The dog days of August -- "Twenty days before the Dog Star 
moved into conjunction with the sun, the dog days began. The 
world started to run more and more afoul of the inanimate." We 
have the astrological situation and the Gnostic terrorizing by 
the inanimate.  " . . . a succession of encounters between 
groups of living and a congruent world which simply doesn't 
care." Job the schlemihl again nearly "schlimazzeled out of existence."
Nothing to do with the author's view of multinationals here 
except as jbor points out, the Rand stuff.

calbert at tiac.net wrote:

> > 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