Pynchon's hides a definition of Late Capitalism in plain sight

[Mark Kohut]

"only the lateness and
the absence that fill a great railway shed after the capital has been
evacuated,"....

On Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 6:51 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V303.24-41, P308.11-29   . . . it was always easy, in open and lonely
> places, to be visited by Panic wilderness fear, but these are the
> urban fantods here, that come to get you when you are lost or isolate
> inside the way time is passing, when there is no more History, no
> time-traveling capsule to find your way back to, only the lateness and
> the absence that fill a great railway shed after the capital has been
> evacuated, and the goat-god’s city cousins wait for you at the edges
> of the light, playing the tunes they always played, but more audible
> now, because everything else has gone away or fallen silent . . .
> barn-swallow souls, fashioned of brown twilight, rise toward the white
> ceilings . . . they are unique to the Zone, they answer to the new
> Uncertainty. Ghosts used to be either likenesses of the dead or
> wraiths of the living. But here in the Zone categories have been
> blurred badly. The status of the name you miss, love, and search for
> now has grown ambiguous and remote, but this is even more than the
> bureaucracy of mass absence—some still live, some have died, but many,
> many have forgotten which they are. Their likenesses will not serve.
> Down here are only wrappings left in the light, in the dark: images of
> the Uncertainty. . . .
>
> What does "fashioned of" mean here? And are these souls of
> barn-swallows, or just barn-swallow-like?
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>
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