Repost: The Big One

[Michael Bailey]

Paul Mackin  wrote:

> Sounds like you think there might be some kind of crazy conspiracy to
> suppress the information.

What major event (evenk) occurred between V. (where Eigenvalue argued
against grouping the world's random caries into cabals) and CoL49 (where Oedipa
learned to see...well, whatever it is WASTE is)?

Kennedy assassination.

> second, third, or fourth cousins? Tom is a digger however.

The Hollander article traces political consciousness in OBA's high
school editorials...
an early and lasting hatred for corruption; the rumors around
Kennedy's demise - as a digger, he would've
seen the Zapruder film way before some of us (I didn't know it existed
until 1974, but I've
led a sheltered life) -- and as a person with leftie friends, would've
been able to string a lot
of dots together into a visto.  But I stil maintain he's above all
that and is writing for the ages...