Planned Obsolescence

[Monte Davis]

Not to disparage your link (for which thanks) or Krajewski's interesting
article (with some details new to me), but it shouldn't be news to any
serious P reader -- in contrast to the Paris Review writer -- that Phoebus
was real. Google " light bulb cartel" and see the Wikipedia article for
accounts going back as far as 1945 and 1951... and it' s been discussed in
Pynchon Notes and IIRC here.

On Sunday, October 4, 2015, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> “I knew that Pynchon’s prose style mixes fact and fiction, and so I
> wondered: Could this be true?”
>
> http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/10/07/planned-obsolescence/
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>
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