Our Invisible Poor

[Ian Livingston]

Nice work, Dave. I'll have to check both of these out, maybe re-read CoL49
again while I'm at it.

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all creeds
the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in
reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness
groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest
urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
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