Watts article

[Paul Mackin]

Malignd:

> <<"While the white culture is concerned with various
> forms of systematized folly--the economy of the area
> in fact depending on it--the black culture is stuck
> pretty much with basic realities like disease, like
> failure, violence and death, which the whites have
> mostly chosen--and can afford--to ignore."


>  its still nonsensical. 

> Money doesnt free one from disease or death. 


Maybe Pynchon is thinking like a 30-year old. Which he more or less was.
As he approaches 70 it might occur to him to write the sentence
differently.