Our boy Pynchon

Tue Mar 18 02:20:30 CDT 2008

This might be a stupid question, but why has our oh so faithful author remained
anonymous in the picture category.  How does this add to his method of writing
proses.  I get that it leaves him out of direct criticism, but is this gesture
in a way showing that he thrives in the continuation of human population though
despairs it's existence at the same time?  I consider myself a novice reader
though an inept Pynchon digest reader as I'm an engineering myself, (following
the same collegiate path that he did.).  Sorry also in that I don't feel this is
the correct message board to write this in, but I feel this question has not
been answered completely through my several months as a Pynchon digest reader.

Nicky

 pynchon-l-digest       Tuesday, March 18 2008       Volume 02 : Number 6042
> 
> 
> 
> Re: This Video Works, A Journey into Be Kind, Rewind of Pynchon
> More W.A.S.T.E.
> Bear Stearns
> ATDTDA 751 - Kit looking left and right on train
> Re: Bear Stearns
> Re: Bear Stearns
> Dogs of War (1923)
> Re: More W.A.S.T.E.
> 
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> 
> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:41:05 -0500
> From: "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: This Video Works, A Journey into Be Kind, Rewind of Pynchon
> 
> If it's Pynchon, she's probably sworn to secrecy.  But coincidental
> resemblance is more likely that intended resemblance.  Really, how
> many people know what he looks like?  We are just guessing that he
> looks like the guy in the trailer base on photos of him taken over 30
> years ago.
> 
> David Morris
> 
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Henry <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I, too, am looking forward to Heather Lawless's answer, but what about the
> > "I know nothing about TRP" conspiracy?  If it resembles him, then at least
> > there's reason to believe that it was intended to do so.  Or... pure
> happenstance?
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:05:43 +0000
> From: robinlandseadel at comcast.net
> Subject: More W.A.S.T.E.
> 
> I have a serious question [ahem]: the investment 
> house  "Bear-Stearns"---is it in any way linked to
> the Stearns family involved in the American Waste
> Doctrine?
> 
> Also, while I'm enjoying this little window of op-
> portunity, how about them Tibetian Buddhists, eh?
> Seriously, how far into the future was our boy
> scrying when he cooked up his most recent?
> 
> On my way to Powell's today, maybe they'll have
> Meterious Redemption? Hope so, I''ve got a Birthday
> present to redeem. Shakespeare's "Beware the Ides
> of March" is probably a veiled innuendo---
> "Watch Your Ass!!!
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:10:46 +0000
> From: robinlandseadel at comcast.net
> Subject: Bear Stearns
> 
> >From the Huffington Post:
> 
> For all practical purposes, Bear Stearns is bankrupt. 
> Despite the shotgun nature of the Bear/JP Morgan 
> deal, Bear would not have agreed to a $2/share 
> valuation unless the damage to their business was 
> extremely severe. The Federal Reserve is scared 
> sh*tless. There is no reason for them to get involved 
> in this deal unless they were worried about one of 
> two things (and probably both): 1) the ripple effect 
> and/or 2) other banks in a similar situation. The Fed 
> is looking for any tool (and making some new ones 
> up) to prevent a system wide crisis. Bernanke is trying 
> to prevent a financial sector meltdown.
> 
>
http://mailcenter3.comcast.net/wmc/v/wm/47DE96E8000238D1000043352216538496040A0B0E0A9C0B020E0402070D019D?cmd=Show&no=12620&uid=306497&sid=c0
> 
> Sound familiar?
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:21:34 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
> From: Glenn Scheper <glenn_scheper at earthlink.net>
> Subject: ATDTDA 751 - Kit looking left and right on train
> 
> Ordinary pleasure and pain are two sides of one coin (a samsaric wheel). Some 
> one craves something and then is rewarded by its union. Then they crave again 
> when the bhoga of that temporary fix wanes.
>   -- http://www.rainbowbody.net/HeartMind/Yogasutra2.htm
>   Yoga Sutras-Sadhana Pada
> 
> Yours truly,
> Glenn Scheper
> http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/
> glenn_scheper + at + earthlink.net
> Copyleft(!) Forward freely.
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:57:44 -0600
> From: "Michael Bailey" <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Bear Stearns
> 
> the NY Times archive you used to such good effect
> with the turn-of-the-century Pynchons seems to have reverted
> to a pay service.
> 
> had high hopes of reading about humanizing
> details of Robert Stearns, Joseph Bear and Harold Meyer.
> 
> wikipedia has no history to speak of in their article on BS
> 
> there's a nice bit here:
>
http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Bear-Stearns-Companies-Inc-Company-History.html
> - --though it's short on the scandal, intrigue, and personalities
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:18:10 -0600
> From: "Michael Bailey" <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Bear Stearns
> 
> I'm finding some of the NYT archive is free,
> I've been pulling up good stuff,
> like a Robert Stearns in a bicycling club in 1893
> 
> but the Joseph A Bear obit is a pay-only article
> 
> can't figure their scheme out...nor can I spare 5 minutes
> attention to find the faq...
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:54:17 -0500
> From: "Dave Monroe" <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> Subject: Dogs of War (1923)
> 
> http://imdb.com/title/tt0013994/
> 
> http://www.archive.org/details/DogsofWar
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogs_of_War_%28film%29
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:41:04 -0400
> From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: More W.A.S.T.E.
> 
> the new firm should be called JP Morgan Chase Bear Stern
> 
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 12:05 PM,  <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> > I have a serious question [ahem]: the investment
> >  house  "Bear-Stearns"---is it in any way linked to
> >  the Stearns family involved in the American Waste
> >  Doctrine?
> >
> >  Also, while I'm enjoying this little window of op-
> >  portunity, how about them Tibetian Buddhists, eh?
> >  Seriously, how far into the future was our boy
> >  scrying when he cooked up his most recent?
> >
> >  On my way to Powell's today, maybe they'll have
> >  Meterious Redemption? Hope so, I''ve got a Birthday
> >  present to redeem. Shakespeare's "Beware the Ides
> >  of March" is probably a veiled innuendo---
> >  "Watch Your Ass!!!
> >
> 
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> 
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