The real estate developer motif in TRP and a Vineland stream

[Campbel Morgan]

I say it doesn't much matter because it's just another daisy on the
chain of managerial capitalism and cartels, the railroad and
electricity monopolies, mafia, those who control, the Systems of
Control ... and the like. These are the targets of P's satire. In this
sense, obviously, he is compared with Dickens, but he is not a
European author, but an American writer, and there are major writers
(including Henry James) who influence his works far more than any
European author (including Nabokov, Dickens, Stearne, Cervantes,
Burton).

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Mark Kohut<markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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. :-)
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> --- On Wed, 7/29/09, Campbel Morgan <campbelmorgan at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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