[alice wellintown]

Adam, Adam, stick to writing fiction. Good advice for Pynchon too.
See, the idea of the poor preterite soul comes with the territory;
that place or market is made of working class readers who identify
with the poor preterite caught in the vice of forces beyond control.
For P, that technic itself had become a force so powerful, that the
blood thirsty count dracula markets of war economies would make
theatre of theater, this was the stuff of great fiction (and yes, it
is an anti-war novel). But please keep it in perspective, Adam. The
Markets are not more powerful because the intangibles, the
derrivitives, the leverages, have exceeded the tangible space of
nation states. This exposes Adams total ignorance of the markets. But
he's not alone. The ppor preterite masses are financial illiterates
who  don't even know how the mortgages they give to banks work or how
to retire with enough money.

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The market is now more powerful than the state
> Salon
> I shall assume from Adam Haslett's use of the term "preterite souls" he is familiar with the works of Thomas Pynchon . . . in which case, the concept of ...
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