Rent

[Joseph Tracy]

Isn’t the relationship of landlord to renter a rather obvious mirror of the more universal Pyncon theme of colonizer and colonized? 
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> Can the relationship between renters and landlords be extrapolated
> into a broader existential dynamic? It's worth a thought.
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> On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Chase Carnot <chase.carnot at gmail.com> wrote:
>> "[...] Crocker Fenway chuckled without mirth. ‘A bit late for that, Mr.
>> Sportello. People like you lose all claim to respect the first time they pay
>> anybody rent.’"
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>> When I saw PT Anderson's IV, this line jumped at me for the first time. In
>> the novel, it must have just washed over me. Anyway, I've been thinking
>> about diving back into the novel sometime soon with an eye toward rent as a
>> central theme. I felt vindicated when a reading app I use cropped the IV
>> 'Last Supper' poster... it left the center...
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>> https://goo.gl/photos/zaJops8hNHUrju2u6
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