Atd (37) p. 1041. Erie Line, 'home', Lincolnwood, fascism and a pink tab

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He who shall not be named waxed curious as regards Pynchon's potential 
interest in his family history. There is nothing like a black/white reductionism 
here, but an awareness of his family's contributions, both pro and con, a 
part of the greater narrative of the rise of American Empire. The author 
persues revisionist histories of those businesses that Pynchon & Co. had 
a hand in during their "Day." It seems like many family secrets are buried 
in Crying of Lot 49, the allusions to the W.A.S.T. E. laws of land 
management pointing to Pynchon v. Stearns, a landmark case on property 
management that managed to connect by family history to T.S. Eliot 
and The Wasteland.

Pynchon, being fully aware of his family involvement in the development 
of the modern world of espionage tracks the emergence of Pinkerton, 
something developing right along and with the primary investments of 
Pynchon & Co. during the "Day." These spy networks were particularly 
on Pynchon's mind while writing Gravity's Rainbow. One sees how fully 
OBA must have been possessed by the ghost of Richard Farina.