Horst-Maxine-Windust

[bandwraith at aol.com]

Alice, David- perfect. Exactly the dichotomy the
experimental design, and coincidentally- if you
believe in such quaint notions- the novel, seek
to examine. In the case of H-M-W, is it just M that
connects the two; are all other correlations trivial,
Oedipa Maas-like projections? The design
of the experiment seeks to explore the question
on the cosmic scale. If everything is causally
connected, free will, and all its trimmings, are
convenient illusions, or perhaps, in this case,
convenient frauds; self-serving, to be sure, but
self-anything, in this context, smells of fraud.

What might a pro Nose turn up in Denmark?

Einstein is on the ropes, but he's not down. He
still has one Vector left in his quiver. It's the
biggest Vector on this side of paradise, and it's
pointing, for lack of a better target, right at US.
It's coming from somewhere in the neighborhood
of Sagittarius, and its intentions, if that's the
proper term, seem awfully familiar.




-----Original Message-----
From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
To: bandwraith <bandwraith at aol.com>
Cc: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sat, Feb 22, 2014 10:27 am
Subject: Re: Horst-Maxine-Windust


Interbeing.  Nothing is not connected.




-----Original Message-----
From: alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com>
To: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sat, Feb 22, 2014 9:53 am
Subject: Re: Horst-Maxine-Windust


Horst does not adopt the new technologies that have all but 
buggy-whipped the traders in Chicago and in NYC by the time he moves to 
NYC.  He takes a sublet in the tower not because he has finally given 
in to computer trading but because he wants to keep at his old craft 
trade as long as possible. He is, as he says, a dinosaur. As he says, 
the computer trading has taken over and he can do his job anywhere now, 
but he wants to trade the old way. Though the trading pits in the 
building of Lower Manhattan are on the lover floors, Horst takes a 
sublet at the top. These floors have been relegated to the old world 
traders, guys and gals who trade bonds and act as dealers for UST 
Securities, so Cantor Fitzgerald the Firm hardest hit on September the 
11th. The novel clearly sides with Horst and his craft. His magic, his 
luck and fortune, not unlike the author's own, is set against, not 
entangled in the computer traded world that allies itself with the 
neo-liberalism of Windust.



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