BEER Chapter 9, 90, 91 The Wrong Door

[Robin Landseadel]

If I'm correct—and why not?—this all leads back to the Pynchon Family  
history, how Pynchon & Company made out big on investing in  
electricity, public utilities and other infrastructural necessities. I  
suspect the author is also looking at how the systems and objects of  
his past and his family's history are holding up. One question I'm  
still asking—how connected is Bleeding Edge [possibly Pynchon's final  
novel] to "V.", his first. There's New Yawk, of course . . .
On Dec 9, 2013, at 4:05 AM, John Bailey wrote:

> There's a clear theme across Pynchon's entire body of work that
> connects toilets, television, electricity, railroads, the postal
> system, film distribution, meat markets, slave networks, and now the
> internet. These aren't morally equivalent but structurally there's
> something going on there that keeps popping up in his novels and I
> don't know 'bout you but it strikes some chord with me that keeps me
> coming back.
>
> If P is a systems novelist, as some have argued, then the toilet is
> one of the integral systems BE is analysing. There's a pun in there,
> of course.
>
> I still maintain that the loo focus is also a deeper meditation on the
> internet itself.

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