I Love NY

[Paul Mackin]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robin Landseadel" <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: I Love NY


> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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.

Yes and we can probably assume the Pynchon bunch like the Vibes behaved no 
better than they should have (as the saying goes).

I'd rather suspect that Tom, though he bore the name of Pynchon, experienced 
to two sets of financiers pretty equally from afar.

P







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