Pynchon and postal regulation

[Keith Davis]

Guess I spoke to soon. Used copies are not so cheap, unless there is one in
the used bookstore...

On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 11:47 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Or, I, or one of us, could try to buy a used copy and mail it to you...
>
> Www.innergroovemusic.com
>
> > On Jul 5, 2017, at 7:51 PM, jesse gooch <jlguuch at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > No problem. If you have a VPN on your computer it might work if you
> connect through the US. Sometimes mine will fool Netflix into thinking Im
> in Europe and i can stream the stuff available there but not here, but
> sometimes it catches it and makes me turn off the proxy.
> >
> >> On Jul 5, 2017, at 7:48 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Must have gone up in the past few weeks. I'm in Australia but can
> >> probably work out some way around the geoblocking. Thanks!
> >>
> >>> On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 9:46 AM, jesse gooch <jlguuch at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> 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/
> >>>>>> -
> >>>>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
> >>>> -
> >>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
> >>>
> >
> > -
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