Planned Obsolescence

[Dave Monroe]

... I think I even posted it a year ago myself, but never (?) hurts to
be reminded.  Just making smalltalk, is all ...

On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 10:10 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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/
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