Our Invisible Poor

[Mark Kohut]

lotta the dark side of the Trystero not easily 'splained...


From: Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com>
To: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> 
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 10:19 PM
Subject: Re: Our Invisible Poor


You got it...
On Aug 29, 2012 10:01 PM, "Dave Monroe" <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

"If San Narciso and the estate were really no different from any other
>town, any other estate, then by that continuity she might have found
>The Tristero anywhere in her Republic, through any of a hundred
>lightly-concealed entranceways, a hundred alienations, if only she'd
>looked." (Lot 49, Ch. 6, p. 178)
>
>http://www.nbu.bg/webs/amb/american/6/pynchon/lot6.htm
>
>Books
>Our Invisible Poor
>by Dwight MacDonald
>January 19, 1963
>
>[...]
>
>... Michael Harrington, an alumnus of the Catholic Worker and the Fund
>for the Republic who is at present a contributing editor of Dissent
>and the chief editor of the Socialist Party biweekly, New America, has
>written “The Other America: Poverty in the United States” (Macmillan).
>In the admirably short space of under two hundred pages, he outlines
>the problem, describes in imaginative detail what it means to be poor
>in this country today, summarizes the findings of recent studies by
>economists and sociologists, and analyzes the reasons for the
>persistence of mass poverty in the midst of general prosperity. It is
>an excellent book—and a most important one.
>
>http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1963/01/19/1963_01_19_082_TNY_CARDS_000075671
>
>
>http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/How-a-New-Yorker-Article-Launched-the-First-Shot-in-the-War-Against-Poverty-165589956.html
>
>From Pierre-Yves Petillon, "A Re-cognition of Her Errand into the
>Wilderness," New Essays on The Crying of Lot 49, ed. Patrick O'Donnell
>(New York: Cambridge UP, 1991), pp. 127-70:
>
>By the end of the novel the Tristero, shadowy as it still remains, is
>no longer a ghostly underground (perhaps entirely phantasmatic) but a
>real, 'embattled' underground about to come out of the shadows.  No
>longer hovering on the edge as a cryptic plot, the 'Other' that the
>Tristero has thus far represented is almost revealed as a version of
>'the other America' that Michael Harrington described ....  This
>America is 'the America of poverty,' 'hidden today in a way it never
>was before,' 'dispossessed,' 'living on the fringes, the margin,' as
>'internal exiles.'    "Looking back on the novel from the perspective
>of its finale, it could almost be viewed as a New Deal novel,
>concerned with gathering back into the American fold a 'third world'
>previously excluded...." (pp. 149-50)
>
>http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?ISBN=9780521381635
>
>Cf., e.g.:
>
>http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0907&msg=137034
>
>http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0208&msg=69706
>
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