IVIV (1) Aunt Reet

[Paul Mackin]

I want a zoot suit with a reet pleat
And a drape shape, and a stuff cuff
To look sharp enough to see my Sunday gal


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>; "alice wellintown" <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: IVIV (1) Aunt Reet


> Yet, Aunt Reet had "a supernatural sense of the land"; the 'invisible' 
> stories, especially matrimonial, the generations..., the way the water 
> flowed, or used to.:.......good stuff in TRPs world.
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> She, in her occupational name, is an internal metaphor of the sixties 
> going corporate, YET, in her name, she is a 'mutual fund', 90% 
> redistributed to owners-- NOT Wolfmann, nor like Pierce Inverarity as 
> corporation---devouring greed only. Which may be why she still has her 
> supernatural sense AND her concern for our Doc.
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> Marvelous subtleties from TRP once we 'get' REIT.
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>> > A Real Estate Investment Trust or REIT (pronounced
>> > /ˈriːt/) is a tax
>> > designation for a corporation investing in real estate
>> that
>> > reduces or
>> > eliminates corporate income taxes. In return, REITs
>> are
>> > required to
>> > distribute 90% of their income, which may be taxable,
>> into
>> > the hands
>> > of the investors. The REIT structure was designed to
>> > provide a similar
>> > structure for investment in real estate as mutual
>> funds
>> > provide for
>> > investment in stocks.
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>> > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Dave 
>> > Monroe<against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Ian
>> Livingston<igrlivingston at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> Anagrammatic, too, Reet and tree.
>> > >
>> > > As in "tree section"? Me, I can't help but
>> think,
>> > Reet Poteet, but I
>> > > also haven't quite found any justification for
>> > assuming that's the
>> > > case beyond, well, the fact that (a) it's the
>> first
>> > thing that comes
>> > > to mind when I see Reet (again, Jackie Wilson,
>> "Reet
>> > Petite"), and (2)
>> > > there IS a character by the name of Poteet, so
>> ...
>> > >
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