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

[Mark Kohut]

Yes, much better way to say it, I now think......

P shows how we have lost the ways to even give much away that we might have been able to if..............

it all became caught in the peuniary grid................

--- On Sat, 2/27/10, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: P, maybe too obvious for words--and too tenuous for connection
> To: "Paul Mackin" <mackin.paul at verizon.net>, "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010, 2:24 PM
> It ain't about what you get for free,
> it's what you give that matters.
> Leave all pecuniary matters out of the formula and it
> becomes
> interesting.
> 
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> "liber enim librum aperit."
>