V--2nd Chap 12, beginning, p.347

[kelber at mindspring.com]

If Pynchon's talking about anywhere in lower Manhattan, he got it wrong.  In the '60s, urban renewal meant bulldozing and rebuilding.  No one could have anticipated the whole gentrification-renovation bonanza, that converted abandoned factories to artist-squatter lofts to renovated hipster lofts to luxury residences for the super-rich. Continued recession, combined with a terrorist attack or two, and the rich may flee, starting the cycle over again.   A sinusoidal curve rather than one of Fausto's discontinuous transformations.

Laura


-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Dec 8, 2010 10:02 PM
>To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: V--2nd Chap 12, beginning, p.347
>
>old condemned warehouse not legal....another Pynchonian place....Low-Lands in 
>the City, so to speak...
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>Soon 'developed'--that IV theme here in mini w bulldozers, etc. 
>
>Constant in America.....what Pierce did............
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