aw. RE: lagan or ligan/: Carl Schmitt: Land vs. Sea

[Robin Landseadel]

On Aug 14, 2009, at 5:53 PM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen wrote:

>
> Dear RobinNatáliaTerranceAlice..etc.pp!
>
> As much as it touches my heart that I could, finally, evoke your  
> interest for
> the Law of the Sea in Pynchon's novels, as much would I appreciate  
> if you could
> ascribe the quotes correctly. No big thing, but the question was mine.
> Can you elaborate your answer?
>
> Kai Frederik


Uh, sure. I always assume there are top layers of Satire that point to  
closer to the time of any of Pynchon's publication dates. So, even  
though Inherent Vice is set in 1969, there's plenty of 2006, 2007  
points of reference thrown in. While it's true that the Arpa and TRW  
and Hughes Company references all add up to the CIA creation and CIA  
use of the internet, there's also an arrow pointing to the fall of big  
banks—notably Pynchon & Company's fall—really opening up the great  
depression. Pynchon & Co.s head George M. Pynchon George M. Pynchon  
figured in the papers mainly as a yacht racer. And TRP was in the  
Navy, after all. Thus maritime law expresses Pynchon's pet peeve  
entropy in the form of the term "Inherent Vice". And onward to:

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings;  
the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."

That 'unequal sharing of blessings' pressed rather hard on Pynchon &  
Company. There's lot's more to all that, but it's time for din-din so  
goodnight.


> ----------------------------------------
>> From: robinlandseadel at comcast.net
>> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Subject: Re: aw. RE: lagan or ligan/: Carl Schmitt: Land vs. Sea
>> Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:48:28 -0700
>>
>> On Aug 14, 2009, at 9:52 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
>>
>>>> Why does Pynchon put maritime law in the foreground, though
>>>> the story would largely work
>>>> without it?
>>
>> Maybe pointing to Pynchon & Company?:
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/q8ef7t
>>