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[Paul Mackin]

60s LIVES!

The 60s will rise again.

The 60s are past, long live the 60s.

Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.

On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jonson famously said of Shakey: "He was of his time, and for all
> time"...meaning, sorry to overexplain, that he as you put it 'fit the
> temper of his times".....yet I will add, "defined a central change in
> them" timelessly.....the counterculture was born in the sixties. He
> captured it in his "story marketed as a novel".
>
> And, now, after the level of puzzle and mystery in the book is felt
> and accepted, I love the timelessness of his chosen postal symbols.
>
> On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > It was grist for his mill. Resurrecting a bit of little remembered
> > communications history, recycling it as a mysterious secretive
> underground
> > alternative culture. It fit the temper of the times perfectly.
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 9:42 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> in thinking about the Trystero and Oedipa's
> >> quest and a changed historical text, we haven't given enough
> >> attention to why TRP chose an alternative mail
> >> delivery system in his book.
> >>
> >> I think it was a perfect way of saying what the
> >> wonder of US Mail delivery was--and had been--
> >> to unify the US with democratic communication..
> >> (now endangered, needing an alternative system)
> >>
> >> In his History of the US, Henry Adams wrote
> >> that in 1800 there could be seven--7--mail deliveries
> >> a day within Philly and NYC. 7!!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/03/opinion/why-the-post-office-makes-america-great.html?smid=fb-nytopinion&smtyp=cur&_r=0
> >> -
> >> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
> >
> >
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