Pirate "pixilated" GR Part 1 Section 2

[tesauro terrance]

They are The Firm. 

They are The Kartell, The Firm, The Syndicate, The Management, The Empire, The Corporate State, The Ruling Elite or the degenerate aristocracy, The Elect, The Studio, The Octopus, Count Dracula, and The Adenoid. 

 

They are the Visible Hand & The Invisible Hand.

 

Knowledge is Power. Shake & Bacon and a dash of Foucault. Power-Knowledge. 

Power  / Control  / Synthesis & Walter Wrath & Know

 

They appear under every imaginable manifestation of power. 

 

Ultimately, all of these are subordinated to the insatiable needs of technology. 

 

They are a conspiracy between human beings and techniques. 

 

It’s fiction. Pynchon invented They. 

 

I’m a slow learner and so.. for me
anyway 
 it’s best to deal with They between the pages first and then connect to other stuff. 

 

That being said, the best model for the basic structure of The Firm outside the pages of GR is or was the German-American International Firm:   I.G. Farben. 

 

Dear Rita

Dear Rita

It’s all just theatre

Theatre & Theater

Dear Rita

Dear Rita

 

They are I C 

They are Kold 

They are Blood Thirsty Ccccountants 

They are Arms  & the Octopus 

 

They are Above & Below

On this side and that side 

Everyplace Everything Everyone that you know

 

Where Gulliver & Gargantua 

Talk horse sense that’s nonsense

Where reason is Candide and Taffied 

And stretched 

 

Where Alice is a wonderland walk in the dark

Screaming and streaming through smoke through a looking glass 

 

Dear Rita

Dear

Reader

It’s all just a ball bouncing a fellow who follows a technical star

Who follows the fall

Of the fellow

Who follows

Dear Rita

 

		
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