GR and Nixon

[Otto]

> On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 08:21, Malignd wrote:
> > <<"... The same novel now seems uncannily to have
> > foreshadowed today's geopolitical landscape, with
> > warmongering giant corporations the puppet-masters
> > behind nation states and anarchists, ecowarriors and
> > third world rebels allied in resisting their
> > globalising ambitions and repressive methods.">>
> >
> > GR "uncannily" foreshadows nothing.  GR, in part,
> > describes the determination of a number of global
> > corporations--Standard Oil of NJ, Royal Dutch Shell,
> > IG Farben--during the period of WW II to maintain
> > relationships that would persist once the war was
> > over, knowledge that Pynchon obtained from reading
> > Richard Sausuly.  I.e., what it "foreshadows" had
> > already happened.
>
> Precisely.
>
> I say a little prayer each night. Lord protect Pynchon from his readers
> especially those who write journal papers and books.
>

But to what purpose does Pynchon portrait corporate America that way? Was it
widespread knowledge in 1973 that the world wasn't run (and ruined) by
governments but trusts and cartels?

What does Sasuly's book tell us about the Rathenau-seances? About "Them"?

Otto