Planned Obsolescence

[David Ewers]

For what it's worth, just up the road from Livermore is the town of Byron.

On Oct 6, 2015, at 11:37 AM have a nice day, violet wrote this message:), Monte Davis wrote:

> ​It's safe to click that link, foax: a new still image of the bulb every 30 seconds. Were it a livecam, you could get a seizure -- or your monitor be damaged by the explosion -- if Byron's Enlightenment 2.0 should begin.​
> 
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 2:11 PM, David Ewers <dsewers at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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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