Poor Sad Mexico

[rich]

In some sense that may be true but there is so much other shit being
thrown into the toxic stew that is our waterways besides pig and
chicken shit (which in and of itself is a huge problem)--all that
shampoo, toothpaste, and thousand other products, chemicals are part
of the equation as a recent PBS Frontline described it--focusing on
Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound

we're all part of the problem.

I don't detect any real indictment of Mexico the place w/r/t to the
epidemic but like many countries (Italy, e.g.) I don't know how the
place keeps itself together.

rich

On 4/29/09, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> The swine flu is turning into an indictment of Mexico, when it should be a
> cautionary tale of agribusiness and its excesses.  Mexico's a lot more than
> drug cartels and unwashed hands or, as too many gringos see it, a source of
> hordes of unwanted immigrants.  It's a fascinating, diverse, seductive
> country.  In addition to loving pigs, Pynchon loved Mexico.  Will this
> epidemic lead to the average 36,000 human-strain flu deaths the US sees each
> year but considers too mundane to inspire tabloid headings?
>
> Laura
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>
>>Swine flu related to our farming/stockyard conditions----
>>so one of Pynchon's favorite animals is brutally raised
>>to get brutally sick with a new virus that connects us to
>>them and kills us both/all.
>>
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message ----
>>From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>>To: kelber at mindspring.com
>>Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>>Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 12:45:58 PM
>>Subject: Re: Poor Sad Mexico
>>
>>The longest section is the "About the Murders" chapter.  The state of
>>the corpses of the murder victims found are described, but the act of
>>murder is not described.  And these corpse descriptions are
>>interspersed with other stories, like the experiences of some of the
>>detectives investigating the murders, and other related stories.  I
>>didn't find it gruesome.  The effect is to make the reader adapt the
>>role of a detective.  In some ways this book is one massive and
>>complicated detective novel.
>>
>>David Morris
>>
>>On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:46 AM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>> How does 2666 compare with The Savage Detectives?  I could only make it
>>> halfway through that book - it got tedious after a while.  I get the
>>> sense that the murder descriptions are the high point of 2666, but I'm
>>> not sure I could handle reading them.
>>
>>
>>
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