once more on the video: High Intensity

[Mark Kohut]

I see now. Thnx.

--- On Thu, 8/20/09, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:

> From: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: once more on the video: High Intensity
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Thursday, August 20, 2009, 1:16 PM
> 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
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> 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.......................
> >
> > 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?
> >
> >
> >
> > 
> 
>