my reading this weekend

[Daniel Julius]

Maybe he was listening to a lot of Godspeed You! Black Emperor when he wrote
the book

Have you seen the film yet, Jill?

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 5:39 PM, grladams at teleport.com <
grladams at teleport.com> wrote:

> I think: The completely insane excitement that ensues as drilling strikes
> black gold, and oil forces it's way up from millions of years ago to the
> moment, filling the air and falling all over them, well, it makes people
> shout "Oil!". The book delivers very fine descriptions of this on many
> occasions. Also, noteworthy, is how in dialogue, the word _slacker_ is used
> to describe certain workers in the chapters before the war, during the
> labor union part..
>
> Jill
>
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Daniel Julius daniel.julius at gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 16:15:01 -0500
> To: grladams at teleport.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: my reading this weekend
>
>
> Why does he put an exclamation point in the title, do you think?
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 1:46 AM, grladams at teleport.com <
> grladams at teleport.com> wrote:
>
> > I have read most of Oil! by Upton Sinclair, since I want to see the movie
> > but want to read the book first. It's amazing to get halfway finished
> with
> > it in two sittings, Pynchon's ATD primed my reading mind so that this
> book
> > is a page turner. Will return to ATD feedback later. But I'm struck by
> > visions of the characters in this book and their preocupations meshing
> and
> > being partly a thread inside ATD. Most obvious is the theme of pulling up
> > from the earth this "stuff" so quickly, which took so long to get there,
> > and suddenly with this rearrangement, for so much to change for so many
> > people. And the way that the war was a handy trade market for Oil (and
> > maybe how all wars are). Scarce are railways but still there. Flying
> > overhead just out of view are the Chums I'm sure. All the little details,
> > the riproaring speech snippets from Roosevelt marking human nature's
> desire
> > to believe in a comforting propaganda, double edged sword of capital,
> > advantages it gives some, the humanity that gets taken away from others,
> > and how all socialists get washed out with tossed bathwater of any
> > anarchist destruction. I'll one up myself with expanding the motif:
> > dualities or maybe n plus one dimensionalities emerge as sides of a coin,
> > the shiny corporate side buys the grease for the rails, the idealist soft
> > side that bears itself openly to predators with sharpened grabbing
> talons.
> > Other sides, anyone? Also noteworthy and familiar to ATD readers were the
> > references to increasing debauchery of sex and free love. I was educated
> by
> > references to the Trans Siberian Railway being a locale for allied help
> > that was provided to both rebelling-against-the german-BohemiansCzecho
> > Slovakians and Russian-non Bolsheviks
> >
> > sigh. back to my book
> >
> > Jill
> >
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