Vegas

[Mark Kohut]

Doncha love the ironies?: "Some rob you with a gun, some with a fountain pen."---Woody Guthrie


They get points for ingenuity says the Las Vegas Sun. Five men tried to rob a Nevada bank yesterday armed not with guns, but with a fake federal search warrant that “they claimed gave them the authority to seize all the money in the bank’s vault.” 

One could entitle this: Learning from Goldman Sachs......


--- On Tue, 11/17/09, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Vegas
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 6:56 AM
> If you read the post on the drugged
> balloonist (from Russell's ABC of
> Relativity), and I think it fair to say that Bertrand
> Russell's POVs
> and Einstein's POV, while a fantantice as anyhting Pynchon
> or HST has
> produced, were not altered by the use of LSD or other
> drugs, and if
> you know something about markets and Brownian Motion, and
> if you apply
> these to a Adorno-Benjamin critique of slot Machines and
> reproduction
> technologies from prinit to internet (real/reel), and view
> this
> through the critical soft-anarchist lens of Thoreau
> (resistance), it
> makes sense. P continues to write about Bartleby, the
> scrivener, a
> story of wall street. This makes peferct sense. To parse
> terms is a
> waste of time.
> 
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Richard Fiero <rfiero at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I'm confused by the terms "gambling" and "capitalism"
> as used recently. here
> > Vegas gambling is more properly gaming where the
> payoff to the house is
> > assured.
> > Capitalism cannot exist without State support and has
> never existed without
> > State support. There is no risk.
> >
> >
>