Planned Obsolescence

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Bloom, a strong read, indeed; the bulbs of broken vessels, gnostic, and he
rightly traces the paranoia to Emerson through Ellison's IM.

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 6:37 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> 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/
> >> -
> >> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>
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