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[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Pynchon might "debunk" March to a certain degree.

But Horst? I don't see that.

"This is the Chicago Exchange, toward the end of last week, see? there 
was a sudden abnormal surge of put options on United Airlines. Thousands 
of puts, not a heck of a lot of calls. Now, today, the same thing 
happens for American Airlines." (p. 315)

"HORST MEANTIME IS PUZZLED ABOUT something else. 'Remember the week 
before this happened, all those put options on United and American 
Airlines? Which turned out to be exactly the two airlines that got 
hijacked? Well, it seems on that Thursday and Friday there were also 
lopsided put-to-call ratios for Morgan Stanley. Merrill Lynch. couple 
others like them, all tenants of the Trade Center. As a fraud 
investigator, what does that suggest to you?'" (pp. 323-324)

Horst emphasizes that he's trying "to keep hold of my common sense" (p. 
324); in general he's portrayed as non-hysterical and intelligent.

So what's your point?



On 25.11.2013 11:21, Fiona Shnapple wrote:
> JT sez,
>> So even though Pynchon, in BE does suggest some sinister possibilities along the lines of insider foreknowledge,  almost no one on the p->list wants to even think about, hear about, or talk about it in anything but a very reactionary  and fundamentally ad hominem way.
> He doesn't suggests them; his characters do; he debunks them.  Why?
> That is the question. The answer is not too easy to get at. You, and
> the others who attack you, ignore the book, for the most part. It's
> not easy to argue that P suggests something sinister, not with this
> book. Give me pages and I'll argue against such a reading.
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