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

[Mark Kohut]

In book it is 1956....V. is published by 1963 early, so he had reality to about 
mid-1962...

And he writes, "Someday there would be cranes, ...bulldozers, etc.''

What am I missing?


----- Original Message ----
From: "kelber at mindspring.com" <kelber at mindspring.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Thu, December 9, 2010 12:21:24 PM
Subject: Re: V--2nd Chap 12, beginning, p.347

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...
>
>Soon 'developed'--that IV theme here in mini w bulldozers, etc. 
>
>Constant in America.....what Pierce did............
>
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