Fun stuff in M&D

[Daniel Harper]

On Tuesday 13 March 2007 08:55, you wrote:
> nice finds...I'm about the only one posting on the Mason & Dixon wiki at
> the moment so I recommend you post these two bits---or I will!
>

Done and doner.

>   The L.E.D. find illuminates two parts of Pynchon's vision---or one part
> vision, one mataphor, I think....dogs in his two books with them are human
> stand-ins for passive middle-class humans....(more)
>
>   And, as with much other technology, computers are not, in general,
> positive things....

Yes, there's much in Vineland to be said about computers. But I think it's 
more about the objectification and dehumanization of humans than necessarily 
anti-technology. 

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