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

[Mark Kohut]

Key connections-making, I daresay. Big wide self-organizing lasoo encircles them all.

--- 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: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010, 6:22 PM
> Yeah. It's the people on the dark
> side, those acquirers of wealth who
> seem to want to get things for free, the good guys (the
> anarchists and
> such) just do what seems like the right thing to do and
> don't ask
> much, if anything in return. The caretaker in V., Oedipa,
> Slothrop,
> Zoyd, Chang, Tesla, Doc.... Just a few representatives,
> characters we
> like who give/work without asking payment.
> 
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > 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."
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> "liber enim librum aperit."
>