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[Bled Welder]

And my dearest Michael, maybe not let anyone know that I may be pondering the notion that it is very quite possible that I was born in 1971 under the astrological sign of Agaiarius.
I cherish you that you may keep this most prize to me possible truityish.
My mother, you see, may have in common a certain occasional birth of James Joyce, mind you.
And she is very much alive.  And yes I am bringing her mind and body to wondrous health.  I may hope.
> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:59:24 -0400
> Subject: Re: Back to AtD & Iceland Spar
> From: michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> 
>  Bled Welder wrote:
> > El Lewderino:
> >
> 
> there's a phrase in Chaucer - "lewed or learned" so I guess the
> opposite of learned is lewd?  Anyway, Lew isn't very lewd in AtD,
> except that one time...
> 
> > ...(snippage of interesting alcohol material)
> 
> I was enough of a teenage drunk that I basically ruined drunkenness
> for my adult self.
> There was this horrible social shift about 1971 or 1972, from
> occasional pot and acid and mescaline with body rushes and mystic
> visions and laughter, to constant beer and wine with bad driving and
> throwing up in embarrassing places and it just wasn't fun, and nothing
> since has happened to change my attitude.
> 
> (although a couple times a year, a beer tastes good, and a little
> brandy in one's coffee can be nice every so often)
> 
> > but the Labor
> > struggles in Colorado are not too thrilling, mildly interesting, which is
> > where I'm stuck.  Webb, Kate's fatehr, was just killed.  I'd love it if
> > focused on the anarchists rather than the ever-tedious unions....
> >
> 
> hmm, actually there's little enough about the unions per se...
> lots more about dynamiting, detectives and hired killers and the Traverse boys!
> 
> Pynchon's choice of material to focus on in Vineland was IWW, probably
> the most extreme union ever, and his choice in AtD is Webb, who is
> such an extremist that the union doesn't send flowers to his funeral,
> iirc, and has a conniption when his daughter Lake ice skates with one
> of the bosses' kids.
> 
> but his choice of capitalist is Vibe, who is equally intransigent, so...
> 
> anyway, something I would write a book on, perhaps, or more likely
> read one, would be Labor Temples - I ran across this phrase last year
> and apparently there were a bunch of them.
> http://citynoise.org/article/4639 has a picture of the front of the
> Seattle Labor Temple, and the comments underneath indicate one person
> doesn't even know what it is, and another person gives a description
> that hearkens back to the 1919 general strike...
 		 	   		  
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