Happy Labor Day!

[Dave Monroe]

Thomas Pynchon Quotes About Labor

http://topfamousquotes.com/thomas-pynchon-quotes-on-labor/

What's a colony without its dusky natives? Where's the fun if they're
all going to die off? Just a big chunk of desert, no more maids, no
field-hands, no laborers for the construction or the mining--wait,
wait a minute there, yes it's Karl Marx, that sly old racist skipping
away with his teeth together and his eyebrows up trying to make
believe it's nothing but Cheap Labor and Overseas Markets... Oh, no.
Colonies are much, much more. Colonies are the outhouses of the
European soul, where a fellow can let his pants down and relax, enjoy
the smell of his own shit.

http://www.columbia.edu/~ey2172/pynchon.html

The spirits presiding over this novel are the Marx brothers --
humorless Karl as well as Groucho and the boys. Traverse teaches his
sons that "Labor produces all wealth. Wealth belongs to the producer
thereof" (quoting from his union card), and parts of the novel
dramatize the strikes and acts of "anarchy" of Colorado mineworkers in
reaction to the inhuman treatment they received at the hands of greedy
tycoons. But Pynchon doesn't let this become a dour proletarian tract
because of his anarchist bent for doing in fiction what the Marx
Brothers did on film. ("Duck Soup" is alluded to early on, and a young
Groucho makes a cameo appearance under his real name.) Hence the silly
songs, surrealistic pratfalls and Pynchon's tendency to undercut
ominous pronouncements with wisecracks.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/16/AR2006111601252.html

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