Atdtda[4] 100.22 If I may elucidate part 2

[Paul Mackin]

On Mar 7, 2007, at 7:41 AM, Michel wrote:

> - Walker had a rather major injury: a large bullet, still in his  
> head, and now he hears voices. "Call em communications from far,  
> far away." (101.16).  Another instance of how metal can change your  
> life. (at least it makes one hungry, given the Gargantuesque  
> breakfast from 101.38 to 102.3).
>
> - -"Indians out west": a belief makes Walker responsible for (not  
> "exactly your *physical* well-being") Scarsdale for the rest of his  
> life.  A tip on Standard Oil proves to be very profitable. A  
> bullet, meant to kill, is a "critical acceleration", and do note ,  
> or not, whatever you like, the physics expression, "in the growth  
> of the legendary Vibe fortune." (101.37-38)
>
> - And so, a deal is born, the basis for other deals, of course  
> amongst these Kit's.  (does the 500 dollar on 102.34 mirror the 500  
> shares on 101.35?)


The idea of a Colorado electric power and mining tycoon providing  
talented young men  with all-expenses-paid educations would have been  
familiar to Pynchon from his Cornell days. He himself could well have  
been tempted, or may even have succumbed, as he pursued his earlier  
engineering ambitions.

The case in point would have been industrialist L. L. Nunn who in  
1891 built the first commercial AC power plant, near Telluride,  
Colorado, to power his mines. Responding to difficulty in finding  
trained engineers, Ames began training them himself, first on site at  
the power plants, then later at various universities., The Telluride  
Association was the name of this operation. Cornell University was an  
early site for such training..

Remember the Telluride House, treated so derisively in Pynchon's  
friend's Been Down So Long it Looks Like up to Me.

For description of the TA see

http://www.tellurideassociation.org/chrono.html