Perhaps,

[Paul Mackin]

History repeats itself but not quite the way old Karl meant it.

On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 2:08 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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!
> >
> > 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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