Pynchon and postal regulation

[David Morris]

What about your public library?

On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 5:59 PM John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Good read, Richard, and I laughed out loud a few times. Really gets to
> the ambiguities in P's novels regarding things like W.A.S.T.E. and
> whether we're supposed to buy into its libertarian ideals, or whether
> it's just another dream to be hijacked by the bad Vibes of late
> capitalism.
> On a similar note to your postal purgatory, I spent a good part of a
> recent day trying to find a way to legally watch Lynch's Mulholland
> Drive. It's not on any streaming services, I can't buy it from
> Amazon/iTunes/etc in my country, shops are only stocking recent
> blockbusters, and there are no video libraries left. The only option
> is to pay $30 for a second-hand copy and wait a few weeks for it to
> arrive. W, as they say, TF. I used to be able to walk out the door and
> have a rental copy in my hand within minutes for the price of a
> coffee. I thought everything was supposed to be so much more
> convenient now?
> Of course there's always the pirated download route, but that's hardly
> proof that the system works.
>
> On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 8:18 PM, Richard Willmsen <rwillmsen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Ending is a bit botched but it was a satisfying rant to write :-)
> >
> https://infinite-coincidence.com/2017/07/05/pynchon-and-postal-deregulation/
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> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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