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

[rich]

FWIW, Pynchon is the least New York New York writer unlike say DeLillo
-the bad italian and puerto rican improvisations in V. for example,
imho

He's from here (NYC) but u wouldnt know it from the fiction

rich

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>>From: "kelber at mindspring.com" <kelber at mindspring.com>
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>>If Pynchon's talking about anywhere in lower Manhattan, he got it wrong.  In the
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>>'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.
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>>A sinusoidal curve rather than one of Fausto's discontinuous transformations.
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>>Laura
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>>-----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
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>>>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.
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>>>Constant in America.....what Pierce did............
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