Repost: The Big One

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      Paul Mackin  wrote:

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

A: Ever read this Pynchin guy? Really really big on crackpot conspiracies.
No, seriously—the fattest book of Pynchon cross references would have 
to be on historically extant paranoid conspiracies

B: What happened between CoL 49's short black night and the nightmare 
that is Gravity's Rainbow? Richard Farina's Death. Now you can be
rational, call it an obvious mis-adventure, blame it on youthful folly. . . .

. . . .or you can do what Thomas Pynchon did and write Gravity's Rainbow, 
dedicate it to Richard Farina and have numerous seances folded into the 
plot of a book intent on a shoving a throughly revisionist history of WW 2
down your throat in no uncertain terms, all vectors leading to sinecures
in the CIA for ex-Nazis, all laid out explicitly in Gravity's Rainbow.

Or were we reading different books? I boned up in advance by reading 
Slaughterhouse 5 and Catch 22, what's your points of reference?
Because, those two books are also throughly revisionist histories
of WW 2 and of great value in their own right.

C: When were you first aware of I.G. Farben?

D: When were you first aware of Prescott Bush's involvement with I.G. 
Farben? With the CIA? With Standard Oil?

P: When was Pynchon first aware of I.G. Farben, and why does he 
see a link between the dye company and the CIA and old east coast 
money and Nazis???

When were you first aware of Prescott Bush's involvement with I.G. Farben?
Or do you consider this all a load of red herrings?

Are you paranoid enough to be reading this?

http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

And please—don't tell me this is OTT—GRAVITY'S RAINBOW IS OTT ! ! ! ! !,
the very definition.