Pirate "pixilated" GR Part 1 Section 2

[John Carvill]

You are the 'Original Terrance' and I claim my five pounds!


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From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf Of tesauro terrance
Sent: 11 November 2005 15:46
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: Pirate "pixilated" GR Part 1 Section 2

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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