"The rent's too high"

[Mark Kohut]

Except for yours which is being raised.

On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 7:33 AM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> >> On Jan 7, 2017, at 1:33 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> Isn’t the relationship of landlord to renter a rather obvious mirror of
> the more universal Pyncon theme of colonizer and colonized?
> >>>
> >>> Can the relationship between renters and landlords be extrapolated
> >>> into a broader existential dynamic? It's worth a thought.
> >>>
> >>>> 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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