Happy Labor Day!

[Ian Livingston]

The day when the laboring class wears leisure suits to work, eh?

On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> How about Leisure Suit Day?
>
>
> Www.innergroovemusic.com
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> On Sep 7, 2015, at 10:07 AM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> 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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