BE -- "death wish for the planet" why the internet?

[ish mailian]

That the author thinks there are many unanswered questions about 11
September makes him like, well,  just about everyone else who
experienced it. Some, from a position a lot closer than P's apartment.
His narrative shows us how people responded to the event. Conspiracy
theories were on people's lips as soon as the first tower was struck.

And even before it.

Remember, the buildings were a target of bombing previously. For the
traders, like Horst, who were nearly killed, had our cars destroyed
and so forth, then visited the trading floors in LIC Queens that were
built "just in case" they succeed next time, it was a conspiracy sure.
One that traders, a crew that take bets on anything, rumors that might
fly high enough, for just long enough to make a big day, that take all
sides, puts, calls, straddles, hedges and long long shots everyday,
conspiracy, like rumor was what moved markets and all that matters was
that markets moved. In some direction. The Vix, or volatility trade, I
think, was not in play then, but everyone has bets for an against
those buildings coming down someday. On airplanes and truck rental
companies and real estate and anything that would make a fortune if
that number came up. Like the movie P alludes to, A numbers game. It
was a lottery. One that most knew might get them stoned, get everyone
stoned, and buried under the rubble.

Pynchon is a great research guy but we got the Internet now and my bet
is that he's played his best hand.

On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 4:54 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
> One way to look at P's use of events that become conspiracy is that it
> doesn't much matter what the truth is, even if conclusive and
> definitive proof exists, a smoking gun or whatever, it doesn't much
> matter. Who killed JFK? It doesn't matter. Who is responsible for 11
> September? It doesn't matter. What matters is the narratives, the
> conspiracies, the competing narratives and how we see other narratives
> and what that tells us about us. For example, Maxine  is satirized
> because she thinks that Ernie still believes that the Rosenbergs were
> innocent. They weren't. She may have been, but he wasn't. But that
> doesn't much matter. They are both dead, But the conspiracy to execute
> them, that matters. That makes Ernie's conspiracy, his paranoia,
> closer to Pynchon's, but ti doesn't make it Pynchon's conspiracy.
-
Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l