Pynchon and postal regulation

[jesse gooch]

Fun stuff Richard. Hope you get your stuff soon.

John - Not sure where you are, and that has an effect on what’s available, but MD is on Netflix in the states.


> On Jul 5, 2017, at 7:32 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I live in a migrant/refugee hub where almost 50% speak English as a
> second language, so the library isn't really geared towards arthouse
> US films that nobody understood first time around. Good to see that
> public libraries seem to made it through the storm of privatisation
> and internetting in a lot of areas, though. Yours always sounds like a
> first-rate place.
> 
> On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 9:21 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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