once more on the video: High Intensity

[Mark Kohut]

Yes, that's the unsaid I agree, now that you've said it.

--- On Thu, 8/20/09, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

>> 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
> >
> >Doc speaks of Gordita as soon to be high rises
> >and high intensity.......................
> >
> >Intensity is an interesting word here....not 
> >high-tech or high maintenance or whatever but
> >
> >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)................
> >
> >So, intense is contrasted in attitude with the positive
> attitudes,
> >laid-back, hippie-like?, easy-going, etc. A slower
> throb?
> >
> >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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