Horst-Maxine-Windust

[alice malice]

The point, as I understand Pynchon, is a deliberate ambiguity that allows
Max and others, and the readers, to consider several conspiracy theories.
 We get so much Windust biography, resume...from the file, history, then
the wives.

His is typical of the career path many take, in whatever profession they
enter, from neophyte idealist to hard core careerist, to spent and used
paranoid...though the seriousness of his, where the leverage of the US &Co.
can pry a people off the Earth and dump them in a toxic waste site, is
graver than most. Revolutionaries betray themselves. So, again, the
conspiracy is, as Huxley, not Orwell, taught, ours.
On Sunday, February 23, 2014, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> Nice.
> But Windust appears to be a bit old-school himself as far as the craft of
> hands on dirty work, and to be some kind of a true believer in some
> mythical America even as the real America is betraying him.  Is it the
> agency that kills him or do others read it differently?
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> On Feb 22, 2014, at 9:53 AM, alice malice wrote:
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> > 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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