TRP-related (by me at least)..from a review

[Mark Kohut]

As plist collective wisdom has smartly argued, figuring out "pynchon's politics" may be a mug's game.

But What We--America, The West---have lost, seen so lyrically and interestingly, even as political possiblity, even as a direction of capitalism possibility, may be an overarching theme from a NOVELIST not any political/social prescriber....................



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From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
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Subject: TRP-related (by me at least)..from a review

    The Big Short by Michael Lewis is "an indictment of shareholder driven capitalism". As soon as partnership was replaced by investor money, it became a casino. 

I would argue that one of the meanings of the casino (and Vegas in IV?) in AtD is captured in the above....Pynchon satirizes society for losing its human scale most.