Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil

[Mark Kohut]

I think, allosing for semantic discussion an clarification, that I am going 

to agree with most of this but disagree with "the bottom line" remark.
 
yes, rippling with irony(ies), yes, multi-valenced; seldom one-to-one analogies
(although there seem to be some of those at the level of some particular allusions
but not at the level of overarching thematic allusions) 
 
But, I would argue that GR, although, yes, not just about Germany-England, Farben,
etc.---these are the big symbols of Western historic notions, I would say----is not
"just"(?) about the nature of human consciousness but that the consciousnesses in it
are there for a vision of life and history...and in GR, a lot of the consciousnesses 
are there to show what our [Western] history has done to our consciousness........
 
A tower is not just someone's cigar, so to speak...

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From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Monday, January 9, 2012 5:28 AM
Subject: Re: Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil

We agree.

On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 9:30 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Waa?
> Irony is the water Pynchon swims through. And, yes, everything connects. But
> the genius of TRP is to NOT one-to-one analogy.  His analogies are strong
> via multi-valencies. At bottom line TRP (in GR) aims to explore the nature
> of human consciousness. So specific political histories are secondary.
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