Perhaps,

[Mark Kohut]

But the counterculture unfolded to the Right over our lifetimes.

On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 1:50 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:
> 60s LIVES!
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> The 60s will rise again.
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> The 60s are past, long live the 60s.
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> Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
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> On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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".
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>> 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.
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>> 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
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