Planned Obsolescence

[David Ewers]

You probably already know about this, but in case you don't:

http://www.centennialbulb.org/cam.htm

On Oct 5, 2015, at 3:37 AM have a nice day, violet wrote this message:), Mark Kohut wrote:

> The Byron the Bulb episode is THE one which Bloom anoints with his
> highest praise: reaches the Sublime. Still true.
> 
> On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 11:10 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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