I Love NY

[Robin Landseadel]

On Mar 27, 2009, at 11:08 AM, Paul Mackin wrote:

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> ----- Original Message ----- From: <kelber at mindspring.com>
> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 1:45 PM
> Subject: RE: I Love NY
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>> "The Thing from the North that retributively attacks the City"  
>> sequence in ATD seems to be TRP's take on being in NYC on 9-11 --  
>> at least that's how I read it.
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> True and I think this supports my contention that Pynchon could  
> novelize convincingly  about being a contempory New York literary  
> worker of a certain age. Effects of the group trama on art or  
> something like that.
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>> Aside from that, being an affluent Upper-West-Sider (more elect  
>> than preterite, a little closer to Them than he'd like) probably  
>> doesn't play very well into the themes that TRP like to explore.
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> Ah yes, we run into how success in the profession of novel writing  
> can change one's socio-economic status away from the one the  
> nurtured ones natural subject matter.

To a certain extent, I find the Vibe family related to the George M.  
Pynchon/Pynchon & Co. history, same sorts of times & locales, same  
sort of hierarchical position in NY society, same sorts of fiscal  
involvement with the same sort of industries and utilities.