Fwd: How the Post Office Made America - NYTimes.com

[Markekohut]

Is the Trystero in THE CRYING OF LOT 49 because the national communication system was breaking down? Is Pynchon's unfurling America, with perhaps P's fuller vision of the promise
Of America not coming until Mason & Dixon, set against the failure of what de Tocqueville saw
In the postal service (below). Democracy. Private communication about our lives, our world?  Mail Delivery, which is guaranteed in the US Constitution and is now threadbare [ couple Cogressfolk declaring the Sat cutback illegal even] But, seen 
as no longer the democratic holding together of " our social fabric" by our genius author in the mid-sixties? Finding his prophetic Trystero image against--speaking to--our promise of
A unified democracy? 
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/09/opinion/how-the-post-office-made-america.html?_r=0
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