Rent

[Mark Thibodeau]

Every time I see this goddamn discussion thread re-appear in my inbox,
I get nervous all over again.

Jeez with the RENT crap already!

;-)

YOPJ

On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 6:35 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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> Sent from my iPad
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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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