IVIV and the loss of community

[Dave Monroe]

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Mark Kohut<markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I see an echo here of part of the village community stuff in the Olde Europe section of Against the Day.....words and insights about how everyone
> knew everyone from forever so such impersonal jobs of control did not exist.
>
> And in America, small town/village community around M & D's time.....

How safe is it to say--insofar a sit is safe to say anything @ all
when it comes to Pynchon--that all the novels since The Crying of Lot
49--and even then ...--have to some extent, @ least, and in no small
part , in some cases, dealt with, say, the failure of the Left or
somesuch?  Certainly, the insinuation of Power in daily life, but ...