Rent

[Chase Carnot]

Some of us like it :-P

And you can't talk about rent without talking about eviction...

Tariq Khalil's old turf on Artesia Boulevard being bulldozed for Wolfmann's
new Channel View Estates.

A paranoid U.S. Government evicted the Japanese from the same area during
World War II. They were 'relocated' of course.

"The long, sad history of Los Angeles land use: Mexican families bounced
out of Chavez Ravine to build Dodger Stadium, American Indians swept out of
Bunker Hill for the Music Center ... and now Tariq's neighborhood,
bulldozed aside for 'Channel View Estates.'" (p. 17)

A tectonic shift evicts Lemurians too, sinking their homeland to the bottom
of the ocean. Some escape to California and make a home with all the other
exiles.

More broadly, Americans moving westward (some evicted from the east, nearly
all evicted from the Old World prior to that) to fulfill their Manifest
Destiny, a grandiose euphemism for the eviction of Native Americans.

On Jan 7, 2017 7:34 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
> >>> -
> >>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list
> >>
> >> -
> >> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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