Very misc. Pynchon and land development. a motif. See Inherent Vice and passim.

[Mark Kohut]

In a New Yorker piece decades ago, the writer did not know of THE
LANDLORD'S GAME but did take
the origin back to a simple street game--in Atlantic City and around--
that developed out of PROGRESS & POVERTY.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/business/behind-monopoly-an-inventor-who-didnt-pass-go.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=MostEmailed&version=Full&src=me&WT.nav=MostEmailed&_r=0

This is why we can't have nice things.
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