Organ-eyes Crime

Paul Mackin paul.mackin at verizon.net
Mon Nov 1 15:48:33 CST 2004


On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 13:27, joeallonby wrote:
> on 11/1/04 12:16 PM, RuudSaurins at aol.com at RuudSaurins at aol.com wrote:
> 
> > Methinx...
> > ...that TRP finds a little bit of organized crime nearly everywhere he looks.
> > The street-level economy of post-war Europe was "black-marketeer" in
> > character, while the allied military-industrial-congressional complex
> > dispensed their generosity among corporate and governmental venues.  To the
> > preterite observer it all appears organized as well as criminal.  This is
> > where TRP chose to stage much of GR.
> > truly,
> > ruud
> 
> Think of the smugglers and drug dealers in GR.
>  
> 

Slothrup's involvement in smuggling and dope dealing very pynchonianly
serves to set up the Saure/Gustav philosophical/aesthetic/semiotic
disputation on binary-opposite tastes in music and marijuana.






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