SLSL "TSR" "like an assembly line"

[pynchonoid]

"The death detail worked precisely, efficiently, like
an assembly line.  Every once in a while one of the
offloaders would turn aside to vomit, but the work
flowed on smoothly. Levine and Douglas sat watching
them while the sky got darker, losing more of the sun
whcih nobody could see." (44)


The sky getting darker as the invisible sun fades is a
somber but beautiful image. Pynchon might also have
deeper issues on his mind here, to which he will
return again and again in his later works.


"By 1945, the factory system - which, more than any
piece of machinery, was the real and major result of
the Industrial Revolution - had been extended to
include the Manhattan Project, the German long-range
rocket program and the death camps, such as
Auschwitz."
-Thomas Pynchon
Is It O.K. To Be A Luddite?
October 28, 1984


-Doug




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