"The rent's too high"

[Mark Thibodeau]

:-)

On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 7:47 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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