Planned Obsolescence

[Mark Kohut]

Thank you. An intro to Invisible Man that is almost as much about Gravity's Rainbow. And the lightbulb connection, wonderful. Now one MUSt reread Invisible Man. 

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> On Oct 7, 2015, at 6:03 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
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> https://books.google.com/books/about/Ralph_Ellison_s_Invisible_Man.html?id=jRPvQZAdQD4C
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> see Introduction 
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>> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 4:11 PM, David Ewers <dsewers at comcast.net> wrote:
>> For what it's worth, just up the road from Livermore is the town of Byron.
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>>> On Oct 6, 2015, at 11:37 AM have a nice day, violet wrote this message:), Monte Davis wrote:
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>>> ​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.​
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>>>> 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:
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>>>> http://www.centennialbulb.org/cam.htm
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>>>> On Oct 5, 2015, at 3:37 AM have a nice day, violet wrote this message:), Mark Kohut wrote:
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>>>> > 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.
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>>>> >>
>>>> >> On Sunday, October 4, 2015, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> >>> “I knew that Pynchon’s prose style mixes fact and fiction, and so I
>>>> >>> wondered: Could this be true?”
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>>>> >>> http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/10/07/planned-obsolescence/
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