Property Values

[Robin Landseadel]

On Sep 10, 2010, at 7:39 AM, David Morris wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Robin Landseadel
> <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> The Lot is crying, the land is crying. All along we ignored the  
>> extent that Pynchon was writing about the land as a living thing  
>> being conquered by developers. As clear as that notion is expressed  
>> in all his books, it's not a topic brought up so often. But this  
>> Gaiaian notion of the Earth being sentient is a major thread/theme  
>> in Vineland.
>
> "Yeah, You Right" as they say down here in NOLA.

Remember Doc's Acid Trip? L.A. flooded? Echos of Atlantis? Lemuria?

The Big Uneasy.

And, considering the author's well documented propensity to bi-or- 
trifurcate his meanings, think of all that property going  
"Underwater" [fiscally speaking] throughout the country.

I think it all goes back to:

	"Section 49. Who May Commit Waste."

http://tinyurl.com/2ujga9o

&

http://lsr.nellco.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=duke_fs

Getting to particulars, the following can also be considered as  
background reading for the House of Seven Gables:

http://tinyurl.com/28zyt6e

. . .and the modern expression can be illuminated by reading:

http://tinyurl.com/2wjw4qr