The real estate developer motif in TRP and a Vineland stream

[David Morris]

The point is that the **significance** of Yakuza profiting in RE in the 80's
is **greatly diminished** by the fact that:

1.  Anybody who invested in RE in the 80's made money

2.  Japanese in general (not just mafia) invested heavily in US RE in the
80's, provoking much fear-mongering in the US about THEM buying up OUR
country.
And I don't think Pynchon is all that against mafia in general.  He sort of
likes outlaws, and his portrayal of Ralph Wayvone in Vineland isn't as a bad
guy.  Pynchon digs the concept & existence of an underground economy,
especially one that sells contraband.

David Morris
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Preterites did NOT make a killing in California real estate in the 1980s.
>
> Zoyd did not.
>
> That mysterious Japanese mafia connection, which we have recently discussed
> in the Vineland group reading, did.
>
> That's MAFIA.....Bad Shit, to quote a Pynchon work.
>
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