NP except circuitously; a metaphor branches; goes mainstream

[Mark Kohut]

I blew the post....Should have ended with "Don't bother they're here"....


From: Alex Colter <recoignishon at gmail.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> 
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>; me <mark.kohut at gmail.com> 
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 9:19 AM
Subject: Re: NP except circuitously; a metaphor branches; goes mainstream


Brings to mind 'Bread and circuses'...Pynchon, entering stage left, with the skill of a train'd Magician begins the Ancient Circus Routine that tells the story of "The Bourgeois Frenzy", a love-story  which most of the Audience have seen before, tho' few, if any, remember...


On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

LeCarre's name for the Intelligence Agency behind it all is "The Circus". Pynchon, others,
>use the concept to describe the crazy acrobatics and performances of (certain)
>social realities. [ I cannot offhand remember an exact use of circus in GR or ATD,
>and am not going to check but I do remember Carnivale, an inexact analogue is
>in AtD.] In Confidence Men, Ron Suskind uses it to describe the 2008 campaign, "What
>amazed Obama was how big the whole circus had become, and how fast." [sic].
>
>I find in an article on Apple, 'the retail circus" .
>
>Below is the NYTimes today:
>"Foreclosure Auctions Show Raw Form of Capitalism
>16 hours ago ... Foreclosure auctions have grown into a scruffy
>economic circus where bargain hunters from around the world have
>scooped up houses often sold ...
>January 15, 2012 - By KEN BELSON - U.S."
>
>And, to stick the landing, I ran the word 'circus' through Google Trends--
>a mapping of use and voila (and interesting, imho)
>http://www.google.com/trends/?q=circus&ctab=0
>
>Send in the clowns.
>
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