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

[ish mailian]

It's certainly a brilliantly composed passage. Indeed, the entire
episode or chapter is amazing. Contrast these figures and this writing
with the Thanatoids and the writing in VL and you can appreciate why
so many fans of GR were not so thrilled with or by VL. Of course, P
does even more amazing things in M&D and AtD. Rumor was that he once
wanted to write poetry.

On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 6:43 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> "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?
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