V-2nd: He got there by (fwd)

[Robin Landseadel]

> On Jun 23, 2010, at 4:35 AM, Heikki Raudaskoski wrote:
>>
>> Hi again,
>>
>> to give credit where credit is due: of course it was Dave on  
>> flânerie.
>> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon- 
>> l&month=0012&msg=51354&sort=thread
>
> 	Since his discharge from the Navy Profane had been ro
> 	ad-laboring and when there wasn't work just traveling,
> 	up and down the east coast like a yo-yo; and this had
> 	been going on for maybe a year and a half.  After that
> 	long of more name pavements that he'd care to count,
> 	Profane had grown a little leery of streets, especially
> 	streets like this.  They had in fact all fused into a
> 	single abstracted Street ... (2)

Odd thought here—TRP gets out of the service,bounces or Yo-Yos to  
Boeing, & also probably has time and opportunity to observe ex- 
servicemen working on the highways and in other "grunt" jobs, thanks  
in part to his father's profession as a surveyor. Of course, the  
subdivision of the earth into artificially defined "lots" or "zones"  
always was an idee fixe of the young author from the get-go and as  
Bill Millard  points out in "Pynchon's Coast: Inherent Vice and the  
Twilight of the Spatially Specific ,"

http://www.collegehillreview.com/004/0040501.html

. . . this cutting up of the Earth into suburbs and other  
unsustainable residential/social/political structures is doomed to  
failure, thanks to inherent design flaws. Pynchon's seems to have been  
telling this one joke for years, seems like nobody really "got it"  
before.