Happy Labor Day!

[Ian Livingston]

But, I thought this is Leisure Day? The day when only the labor class goes
to work?

On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 2:45 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
> Where's Terry if/when you need him?  Huh?  Huh?
> -
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