once more on the video: High Intensity

[Paul Mackin]

I think the basic meaning may be the 'high intensity' of the life styles 
needed in order the maintain the mortgages on the updated beach front 
living.

P
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From: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 12:11 PM
Subject: once more on the video: High Intensity


> 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?)
>
> Is high-intensity what Vond and other not-nice guys have?
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