pynchon-l-digest V2 #7241

[Mark Kohut]

And the roots are placed all the way back in the Vienna section of Against the Day.......with Yale OSS, a foundation. getting savaged there and in GR.......


espionage, one might argue, is one of the essentials of modernity----and one of its pervasive evils, one might also say..........

--- On Thu, 10/29/09, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: pynchon-l-digest V2 #7241
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009, 3:08 PM
> On Oct 29, 2009, at 11:53 AM, John
> Carvill wrote:
> 
> > Whatever, the connection between the CIA and drugs is
> one which
> > Pynchon made 100% explicit a long time ago, in
> Vineland, as well all
> > know. Robin, over to you.....
> 
> . . . delivered in a more, shall we say—Occult?—fashion
> in The Crying of Lot 49, what with tying together the CIA to
> that rough theater of cruelty specialist Fernando Arrabal
> and scattering clews of Manchurian Candidate programs in the
> wake of JFK's assassination.  I have yet to throughly
> consider the latent CIA references in Gravity's Rainbow but
> I already know that many threads of the emerging post-WWII
> military-industrial complex are woven into that
> meisterwerke.
> 
> 
>