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

[rich]

yr first point is sadly true.
getting the little gray in the hair you get to see a bit more clearly
and like a lot of Pynchon characters you're always on the edge of some
dangling revelation where like some apparitions you only seem to see
them in those hypnagogic twilight states (and I ain't talking celibate
vampires here)
I don't fault Pynchon for later in life laying out the dirt on the bad
guys but the likes of Crocker Fenway and Scarlet Vibe are not as
interesting, drawn as they are like vampires (which they are) exposed
to the light

rich


On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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.
>>>
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