The real estate developer motif in TRP and a Vineland stream

[Mark Kohut]

I respectfully disagree.

--- On Wed, 7/29/09, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: The real estate developer motif in TRP and a Vineland stream
> To: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Campbel Morgan" <campbelmorgan at gmail.com>, "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 11:21 AM
> 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.
> 
>