CoL49 (5) Sidney [Genghis] Cohen

[Paul Mackin]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Robin
Landseadel<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Jun 30, 2009, at 7:40 AM, Paul Mackin wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> Beg if you want—Charles Hollander was the one who speaks of Pynchon's
> disappearance as that of a political paranoid.

.Yeah and God Bless the Dude.

I think I once suggested to Charles that he reframe his arguments so
as to present Lot 49 as an allegory of how conspiracy theories work.

Does everyone realize it was almost exactly ten years ago (April, May,
June of '99) that Charles posted extensively to the p-list under the
name of Dudious Max.

He also corresponded privately to just about everyone who was a
regular poster at the time.

Several of us are still around.

P.