BEER Group Read. Empty packages. Why?

[Fiona Shnapple]

The Vacancy is not the business name, but what people call a property not
rented or otherwise in profitable use. Did you here about the vacancy? If
you did, it isn't or won't be for long. A rare and unusual property, a
vacancy. Remember how the odd couple come to live together? Etc.

Why is it not occupied?

Maybe it is. Maybe it's a tax shelter....etc. this is common reo talk.

On Tuesday, October 15, 2013, John Bailey wrote:

> 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<javascript:;>>
> 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?
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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