CoL49 (5) Sidney [Genghis] Cohen

[Paul Mackin]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Robin
Landseadel<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> For some, The Crying of Lot 49 is primarily a literary puzzle, for others
> it’s a thin veil barely covering over great political conspiracies,  a
> collection of very odd jokes and puns or a pure artifact of the time it was
> written.

I would choose all of the above except the "thin veiled" part if it
implies there was some danger in not speaking openly. .

What would have been the motivation to veil anything?

Mark Lane didn't veil anything.

Everyone and his brother was openly accusing the CIA, the Mafia,
Castro, the Soviet Union, Lyndon Johnson, the National Association of
Manufacturers, etc., of knocking off JFK and undermining America as we
wanted to believe in it.

Imploringly :-)

P