P, maybe too obvious for words--and too tenuous for connection

Paul Mackin mackin.paul at verizon.net
Sat Feb 27 12:35:36 CST 2010



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From: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 8:08 AM
To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Subject: P, maybe too obvious for words--and too tenuous for connection

> In IV, we have in that fine ending the clear statement
> of one theme: the vanishing time when people helped each other
> for free, without wanting something for it. That echo of it
> in the cars jostling in the fog.
> 
> In AtD we have the time and person of Nikola Tesla who wanted
> free electic power for everyone. Ridiculed and defeated by 
> Scarsdale Vibe.


Don't he know they ain't no free lunch?

P
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