Organ-eyes Crime

[joeallonby]

on 11/1/04 4:48 PM, Paul Mackin at paul.mackin at verizon.net wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 
> 
And the "when I listen to Beethoven, I feel like invading Poland" line is
one of the funniest in the book.