Our boy Pynchon

Tue Mar 18 09:29:04 CDT 2008

Nicky, I'm a frequent writer of technical documents; few engineers can
write, most English or Lit majors don't understand tech, but if your job
title is technical writer, you don't get paid half of what engineers get
paid, which is why I prefer to be hired as an analyst, even if I'm gonna be
mainly writing.

Nicky, do you think that perhaps Pynchon has stays out of the public eye in
order to avoid questions like those in your message below, particularly
questions without question marks.  Oh, yeah, in the future, please be kind,
and don't include the whole digest in your message.

If anyone wants to see interview-with-artist-as-combat at its finest, check
out the Bob Dylan documentary by Martin Scorsese, "Don't Look Back."  

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000A0GP4K/ref=s9_asin_image_1_k2a_c5-2785_
g1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_r=0C4AQB6XD9T57D43N6MG&pf_rd
_t=101&pf_rd_p=292858901&pf_rd_i=507846 

HENRY MUSIKAR
Information, Media, and Technology Consultant

http://www.urdomain.us/kcuf.htm  

-----Original Message-----
From: Nicky Bryant

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.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 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/47DE96E8000238D100004335221653849604
0A0B0E0A9C0B020E0402070D019D?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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