Pirate "pixilated" GR Part 1 Section 2

[Paul Mackin]

On Nov 10, 2005, at 4:19 PM, jbor at bigpond.com wrote:
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> Anyway ... it might be interesting to consider the etymology and  
> metonymy of the term "The Firm", as Pynchon uses it here in GR.  
> It's a colloquial reference to a company or corporation in the  
> abstract, and it's most often used to refer to the company by  
> people who are working for that company. There's a connotation of  
> solidity, unity, loyalty. Here, I think Pynchon is using it more  
> broadly to refer to a conglomeration of governments, armed services  
> and corporations. It seems to me that it's meant as an allegory of  
> capitalism.

I always took "the Firm" to be a Pynchon invented usage  mimicking  
"the Company" and "the Agency" as used in the U.S. to refer to the  
CIA,  especially  in its  secret operational activities.