a euphemism... Real Scars

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Paul M. Asks:

I thought of that robber baron capitalist from my city, Andrew Carnegie. Who also gave a fig about human improvement while he believed driving down labor costs was best way to more profit....libraries for all...if you survived poverty and the life-shortening work.

I was reminded of Carnegie & Frick very often in this section. 

And here we have TRP showing us how we can self-justify our inhumanity.
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> Doesn't it seem quite incongruous for a capitalist of that era to pretend to give a fig about the improvement of the race?
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> In other words, are we meant to accept the passage at face value?
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> Just wondering.
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> ciao mc otis ps I hope all you east coasters are well. ________________________________ From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2012 2:17 AM Subject: Re: a euphemism for P's poorest prose: warm excrement flowing from a pathetic puppet's mouth No, come on...it reads like a Simpsons character, like MB, owner of the Nuke plant, no, not even, more like the sycophantic Smithers, who, like MM in Disney's Fantasia is an apprentice sorcerer...like I said, it is as if Zinn wrote it for his graphic novel...we know that the character here is saying something he would never say, not in an address to anyone, not even to a mirror or to the devil. Greed is Good! Oh, for a clip of Wall Street! Or...a song from Finian's Rainbow...a Blicero with a strap on cunt. Jeez, Tom, maybe this one is vice for Thanatoids who bend the neck out of their bodies to push thru to page 1000 On Wednesday, October 31, 2012, Michael Bailey  wrote: i think - heck, i'll take a chance and say I'm pretty sure - that
>>> everything vibe says in his speech was said sincerely by some robber
>>> baron or right-wing ideologue - and is being echoed today by
>>> Thanatoids under the same aegis
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