CofL49, misc. thots to try to think-thru MB's thots

[Michael Bailey]

Mark Kohut wrote:

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> so, I suggest he did not take time to work as hard as he did later in burying
> layers of meaning in every word. He wrote it more "off the top"..........
>
> which is why some of that Greyhound observing kinda stuff is so poignant? As well as
> the California observing?
> Which is why the conceptual concerns that obsessed him, and about which
> he did a lot of reading----comparative religion, Jungian psychology, universal anthropology/sociology;
> some great poets, etc.----fed his vision like an IV drip? . Sometimes visible on the page?

Yes, that's what I was trying to get at.


 (Who would have
> described via metaphor the narrow, repressed 50s, early 60s as a tower---but someone using
> those general anthro concepts?...[Wrong here?...correct me]
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> Misc. * I would really like to know how many copies his early work sold....I knew of a book salesman
> who called on a regional wholesaler in Michigan, which was going out of business in the 70s, who found, he claimed---
> and bought--- a BOX of first edition V.'s, missing only a few.
>
> After Gravity's Rainbow**, a huge sales success, TRP could live on the earned money, travel and with advances, grants and royalties
> make a living wage, it seems. So, no need to publish in parts for cash flow.
>
> **I also heard of another sales executive---more-b.s-full, in general---who said that in having to clean up major warehouse
> problems with Viking---he found a BOX of  first edition 'Gravity's Rainbow''s. This in the late 80s or 90s. I heard this in the 00's.
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