The real estate developer motif in TRP and a Vineland stream

[Mark Kohut]

That Zoyd did not, that preterites did not, is not beside the point in explicating Pynchon's Vineland, I think. This newly learned (by me) historical fact added resonance to another Vineland stream. Coupled with a lifelong motif of real estate, including in The Secret Integration as you reminded.  

I think there is decent circumstantial evidence, mostly from AtD and M & D, that Pynchon does not look favorably on owning more than you need to live. 

Yea, thanks for the correction re parable. I could have sworn there was a Russian Dancing Bear in my translation of How Much Land Does Man Need? Smile. :-)

--- On Wed, 7/29/09, Campbel Morgan <campbelmorgan at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Campbel Morgan <campbelmorgan at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: The real estate developer motif in TRP and a Vineland stream
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 11:22 AM
> I wrote, what *investment group* did
> not make money.
> To contrast such groups with the preterite or Zoyds is
> beside the
> point and a given.
> 
> BTW, Tolstoy's work is not a fable, it's a parable.
> I note this because, as P critics have pointed out,
> parables, with all
> their religios connotations, are what we often get in P.
> 
> or see Tolstoy's Anna K. (Levin and Real Estate)  and
> Pearl S. Buck's
> The Good Earth (Wang Lung and Real Estate). Both are
> religious, moral
> tales.
>