The 'Waste' Law

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

>From  Charles Hollander's 1992  
"Pynchon's Politics: The Presence of an Absence

          The senior partner, George M. Pynchon, tried 
          desperately to come up with some technical 
          breakthrough to stem the tide. In 1930, he 
          backed experiments with a "diesel electric" 
          boat and a "glider boat." Alas, neither paid off. 

Around midnight a pair of voices arguing in Italian were heard 
outside the door, and the exchange continued for a while. 
Recently Young Congo had joined forces with a pair of Italian 
naval renegades, Rocco  and Pino, who had stolen from the 
Whitehead works in Fiumme the highly secret plans for a low-
speed manned torpedo, which they intended to assemble here 
in Belgium and go after King Leopold's royal yacht, the Alberta, 
with Rocco, never less than earnest, might only have lacked 
imagination---while Pino, seeming to express all that is 
immoderate in the Southern Italian temperment, found himself 
driven regularly to distraction by the mental stolidity of his partner. 529
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From: "Monte Davis":

      Jill sez:
      I'd like to know if these postings by our good 
      Robinlandseadel and others piling up in the inbox, if all 
      these recent November mining up of google book items are 
      recent discoveries by the pynchon-list --or are these 
      rehashings of already known stuff? 
 
 Both. The most accessible short compilation is the "Pynchon Family" section
 of Charles Hollander's 1992  "Pynchon's Politics: The Presence of an
 Absence," online at Michel Ryckx's Vheissu as
 
 http://www.vheissu.info/art/art_eng_SL_hollander.htm#chap_2