Organ-eyes Crime

[Paul Mackin]

On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 18:00, joeallonby wrote:
> 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.

The referent here would seem to be not merely the invasion of Poland,
but Modernism and Seriousness.