Rent

[Mark Kohut]

Or even, thinking of the lifelong power/ domination theme, all about " structured subjugation", a phrase I like learned in an essay on globalization, which is not, or not just, " everything solid melting into air" these days, something Pynchon also knew in his (only) pre-modernity novel, Mason& Dixon. 

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> On Jan 7, 2017, at 1:33 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
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> 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.’"
>>> 
>>> 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...
>>> 
>>> https://goo.gl/photos/zaJops8hNHUrju2u6
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