BtZ42 "Progressive knotting into"

[Ian Livingston]

Depends what you call progress, really, yes?

I think it's possible to get all mystical about this image Pynchon uses, or
all political. It's also possible to shade each into each.

BTW--my computer is on the fritz. Can't get on it much or for long. I do
sincerely apologize for going absent. I need to save up for a new machine.

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 3:50 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> An answer to the question, "Is this the way out?"
>
> No.
>
> And what they are progressively knotted into (if you will allow that
> "progressive" here connotes a step by step, increasing intensity and
> depth) is the cities of the poor, where the chances of light and
> salvation diminish to absolute zero, for the poor fellows. Not very
> progressive after all. Is it?
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 6:28 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> > We often allude to this as 'going deeper' . Here mostly
> > means deeper into the rotten city and closer to death.
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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