IVIV and the loss of community

[Mark Kohut]

I second although I exempt M & D, at first blush....

--- On Sat, 9/5/09, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: IVIV and the loss of community
> To: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Saturday, September 5, 2009, 11:43 AM
> 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 ...
>