MDDM Ch. 70 Scalping Lord Lepton

[Otto]

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From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: MDDM Ch. 70 Scalping Lord Lepton


> Bandwraith wrote:
>
> > I think that the giant hemp tree episode is
> > one of the weaker spots in the novel. Surely there is an
> > attempt to anachronistically connect the bands of rival
> > "jobbers" with an overly romamticised version of modern
> > drug gangs feuding over product, but it does not play well.
>
> I disagree. I don't see in this recount an analogy with modern drug gangs,
> who are on the whole distributors rather than primary producers, and whose
> retail product is generally more chemical than herbal. There's no Native
> American connection either, except in that modern-day drug gangs often
> develop amongst (other) marginalised ethnic minorities. I think it plays
> rather more aptly as a demonstration of the inherent tendency to avarice
in
> all human cultures, just as the example of the Catawbas' booby traps and
the
> explanation which follows (676) exemplify a wider tendency towards
> internecine conflict.
>

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