Meet the New Boss (Pynchon's THEY or The Firm is Dead)

[Robin Landseadel]

If you're paranoid anyway and constantly baked as well "THEY" will  
always be evading you. And the younger Pynchon, the Pynchon of  
"Gravity's Rainbow" is a notable exemplar of paranoia.  After reading  
"Inherent Vice" "You can guess the rest" as Brian Ferry always sez.

I'm interested in the particulars of Pynchon's "THEM"s as there's a  
lot of buried history that returns to street level in TRP's pursuit of  
"THEM".

On Aug 25, 2010, at 7:20 AM, rich wrote:

> I think one can fairly say it won't matter who They become (and let's
> face it alice, They are always becoming, They are never They for when
> you pin down and say there They are, they are no longer They)
> They no longer interest me. Oil does
>
> rich
>
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:07 AM, alice wellintown
> <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>> After reading Henry Adams, young P penned his first novel, V.. The
>> coal power and gun power and the forces invisible that had replaced
>> the Virgin's power, though not her Unity, inform V. and GR. But the
>> Firm has fallen. As Murphey's Law, more apt than the Law of
>> Deminishing return or the Law of Yaw (that which prevented the father
>> of America's "space program from putting Churchill and the Queen of
>> the Moo--the death kingdom), teaches, and as GR often preaches, THEY
>> can not be defeated by a counter-force or a sick crew or a fumbling
>> foursome of super crooks guided by the historical or parodic rock  
>> man,
>> Juthro Tull, but must fall from an inertia that only GOD, not Newton
>> with his pair of Blake's deviders or Nobodaddy with his compass, can
>> Fathom.
>>