BEER Group Read. Empty packages. Why?

[John Bailey]

I have no idea about The Vacancy. Sets up an expectation that
something will fill that void later in the novel, but we never hear of
it again. It seems an oddity in this novel that way.

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 6:32 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Anyone see anything worth saying about Pynchon writing of a company formerly
> known as Packages Unlimited, where packages came and went now called The
> Vacancy
> and a novelistic reprise of the Crazy Eddie scandal where boxes of supposed
> inventory
> are empty and keep being moved from warehouse to warehouse?
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