The 'Waste' Law | Pynchon's genealogical influences

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          Monte Davis:
          So... since I don't think of him as hiding in the first place...

          And don't agree with the repeated implication lately in these 
          parts that the P. family history has been suppressed, or is 
          any more a Deep Dark Secret of American Capitalism than 
          a thousand other family histories one notch below the 
          Adams-Rockefeller-Roosevelt-Bush level of prominence...

          I question the whole premise of a whole nother layer of 
          "coded" revelation "beneath" or "behind" what are already 
          extremely layered works of art. Your furniture analogy 
          makes perfectly good sense to me. 

Please allow me to respectfully disagree.

The other Elephant in the room is Brown Brothers Harriman,
owners and operators of the President of the United States.
Thier family history is also buried in Pynchon's work, specifically
Gravity's Rainbow. Though it's true that other Capitalist War 
Machine Profiteers raked it in during World War Two, OBA
name-drops the BBH story in little pieces throughout the book, 
along with some big heretical Pynchon family stories as well.

          Harriman Bank was the main Wall Street connection for 
          several German companies and the varied U.S. financial 
          interests of Fritz Thyssen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush

You can say it's all paranoid [and what would dicussions of Our
Beloved Author be without paranoia?], but Canonical History will 
include American Nazis like the Bushs in their dishonor roll.