once more on the video: High Intensity

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Driven yuppies vs. laid-back hippies.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Aug 20, 2009 12:11 PM
>To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: once more on the video: High Intensity
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>Doc speaks of Gordita as soon to be high rises
>and high intensity.......................
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>Intensity is an interesting word here....not 
>high-tech or high maintenance or whatever but
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>a word that often is a positive if applied to 
>many things...Intense passion; intense interest;
>intense whatever.......here it is simply an unfavorable
>attitude (as Doc sez early)................
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>So, intense is contrasted in attitude with the positive attitudes,
>laid-back, hippie-like?, easy-going, etc. A slower throb?
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>Reflect on some major TRP characters in this light. Or,
>is any preterite of "high-intensity"?.............
>(I sorta see those with the Protestant Ethic and the Capitalist Spirit
>per Weber as of 'high-inensity".I'm overdoing it too intensely here, yes?)
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>Is high-intensity what Vond and other not-nice guys have?
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