col49 2 pt2

[Otto]

Judy:
> My goodness...such a lot of fuss about Tupperware.
>
> And as I confess to actually making and serving fondue (to guests, mind
> you)...for the record...I've been to Tupperware parties. Yes, plural. This
> was before I started dropping acid, I might add. Perhaps it was because of
> the Tupperware parties...but I digress.
>
-snip-
>
> Those were the days.
>
> BTW...Tupperware's corporate hqts. is in the unofficial plastic capital of
> the world: Orlando, FL.
>
> Later, Judy
>

If Pynchon hadn't chosen this beginning I would've never been to one. So
when I got the chance I remembered the book and went there. It was, let's
put it mildly, a strange experience, but contrary to you, dear Judy, I had
taken (and quit taking) acid in advance. So this event didn't shock me that
hard. Meanwhile I think that the idea of an "initiated cycle" as a selling
strategy is very clever, you cannot buy it at Sears, or? The Tupperware
Conspiracy to invade our refrigerators.

But my girlfriend is very fond of this plastic stuff so now our frige is
full and I regularly have to put the remains to the waste.

Tupperware works with the (false) promise being able to defeat decomposition
(=death), like Doug writes in his post:

"using technology in a vain attempt to hold death at bay and break the
natural cycle of return, but it fails to live up to plastic's promise of
unchanging sterility."

And as the mould in my frige which defeats darkness, cold and Tupperware
proves to me, life is more powerful.

Otto