V-2nd - Chap 8 / I have really never read this book this closely before

[Michael Bailey]

> (In the likelihood that this theory isn't just tossed off, but
> represents a concise little analysis machine in itself, I'm highly
> tempted to go to work on it - like, wars, governments and uprisings as
> 3 states of polis like gas, liquid, solid, and how maybe that
> represents a progression through conflict which establishes hierarchy
> and through its abuses inspires a Counterforce...and how a and b
> restate in permuted form the old adage, "radix malorum est cupiditas"
> and how c undercuts that, or seeks a deeper, more somatic
> wellspring...
>
> and how since Profane isn't actually one who creates such theories, in
> his hands it gets warped right away - there's more to economic forces
> than people getting rich, and in a well-populated plenum there ought
> to be more than just "animate and inanimate", there ought to be ideas
> or something...etc etc, but honestly I'm not feeling it at the moment
> and I probably won't get it right - I think I'm thru for the
> day...meet me back here tomorrow sometime, eh?)
>

I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack...and I was lying, I was feeling it, I
just always wanted to say "I'm just not feeling it at the moment" and
now that's achieved, I just want to add that there is undoubtedly a
reference to Benzedrine in Profane's first name, and that I really
think processes as deep and quick as the analysis machine could
underlie this passage, expressing succinctly all the elaborations
mentioned above for those who apply their own quick minds to the text,
because if I do not know that the young Pynchon availed himself of
that pharmaceutical, I suspect it...



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