Happy Labor Day!

[Keith Davis]

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> On Sep 7, 2015, at 12:59 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
>> 
>>> 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?
>>>> -
>>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>> 
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