IVIV (8): Nixonizing U.S. Currency

[Mark Kohut]

just an umbidden thought or two......

Pynchon did not really care if the dates were off by a bit, as we might agree.

But I think 1) IF he did think it a good thing that we got off the Gold Standard---and that line quoted right from ATD about its tyranny....and what we have learned from the international relationsists on our list, thanks, then 2) if now the American dollar is "free to float" in the world economy then it freely signifies (in IV) Nixon's spying, lying, 18-missing minutes of premptive fascist burglary justifying.......spying a metpahor for betrayal
that goes way back in P's (fictionla) world---Vienna, turn of the century?---and Nixon with his roots in McCarthyism, that American sickness that it seems TRP feels poisoned much of America since.................

--- On Fri, 10/2/09, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: IVIV (8): Nixonizing U.S. Currency
> To: "Richard Fiero" <rfiero at gmail.com>
> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Friday, October 2, 2009, 1:05 PM
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 8:02 PM,
> Richard Fiero <rfiero at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > So Dave you are saying that the dates don't matter and
> that the Nixon
> > currency due to the Nixon Shock in '71 is in IV in
> '70.
> 
> Not that they don't matter, but that there's already a
> glaring
> anachronism in this chapter alone.  Question is,
> why?  Sure, Pynchon
> has admitted to playing fast and loose and/or just plain
> sloppy in the
> past (see the SL intro + that letter on the Herero), but,
> still ...
> but, of course, the Nixon $s here aren't NECESSARILY a ref.
> to the
> "Nixon Shock," just a serving suuggestion on my part, is
> all ...
> 
> > Well I wonder. A little indeterminacy here but surely
> not for the first
> > time. Makes it better.  Perhaps the currency in IV is
> not about the Nixon
> > Shock at all and that was my point.
> 
> Again, at least as likely a possibility ....
> 
> > ... it's the Look that matters.
> 
> My instinct is to concur ....
> 
>