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[Michael Bailey]

Pynchon - er, Maxine - mentioned one of the most compelling indicators, the
shorting of airline stock.  some people made money off it.  Maybe they were
just playing a hunch.

W /r/t BE which really is where I am interested in going, i'm trying to
remember where Norman Mailer wrote re the JFK assassination words to the
effect that this is a topic that will attract efforts from all the best
writers of this time. Maybe in the author's preface to Oswald's Story?

I remember that malignd has expressed admiration for Mr Mailer, so perhaps
would concur.

At any rate, it was worthy, in Mailer's estimation, of copious study and
evaluation, and resulted in a narrative marked by Mailer's interests and
passions: examining the character of Oswald in depth and spinning out
remarkable insights in many directions.

The same noteworthiness is true of 11 Sep, and apart from some of the
scenes in AtD, BE contains the bulk of Mr Pynchon's efforts in that
direction, thus far.

In accordance with the style he's developed it's not surprising that Mr
Pynchon wouldn't choose to ignore tantalizing hints of some sort of foul
play...and it's also not surprising that his take is more subtle than to be
taken in any kind of truther net. Suspicion of the US gov't is reasonable
after cointelpro, iran-contra, gulf of tonkin, etc etc - weepers, any # of
things, the 2000 presidential election! these things make the US a person
of interest in any crime hereabouts, remember it came out that FBI was,
well, not culpable but duked into the 1993 bombing? See emad salem eg.

  maxine's parents are opera habitues and antiwar demonstrators, but she is
of the new generation, clubgoing and following the money.  As the Ferengi
say, war is good for business.  And peace is good for business.  For
Maxine, as for Doc, foul play is a cash nexus, but who will foot the bill?
Following her cash trail, she gets money from Stu Gotts, from March's ex,
and from Windust's widow...
And of course Horst.  So her livelihood indicates there are those within
society who support investigation of fraud, for their own reasons, and
whether or not the investigator's credentials are current with the dominant
culture. How and why she chose that field isn't directly narrated except by
exposing her character, probably something like "that's where the fun is!"
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