M&D notes from chs. 7,8 fringe markets, eco edges

[Smoke Teff]

Really grateful for your notes here, about edges in particular. Also the
edges between areas of different landscape correspond with
mixes/diversities of species, tribes, human cultures, systems of power,
histories--ever more virtual boundaries, that is, carried forth as mere
ideas in the brains of human beings. As opposed to emergent from/obedient
to, say, different topographical features.

But mixing these virtual ideas creates a condition of hyperdiversity and a
kind of anarchy. And out of this anarchy a more equitable--you're right to
point out non-slave--kind of relating tends to happen. And maybe a more
creative kind of relating. Food is always big in P's work and mixing
cuisines/cultures tends to be generative.

On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 1:08 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> M&D Ch 7
> OLD post(Bonk of the V.O.C.
>
>  Entering the colony of Cape Town. New Lines. New rules.  A world taken by
> force and edged by terror. M&D Bonked awake to the limits and awake to the
> watchful eyes of the patriarchal Dutch. The edge that rings Capetown is
> reminiscent of the lines of separation that are being drawn the
> measurements made, the earth itself weighed and sized and divided like an
> apple.
>
>       Alas the best laid plans of patriarchs and papas, so many things to
> keep an eye on- star watching strangers, that pesky  apple, that hunger to
> know and  Eve renamed Johanna of the hungry eye, the nubile daughters so
> hard to straighten, so impossible to rule. )
>
> Well close to impossible ….
>
> The most effective rule is the one embraced by the ruled and here in
> Capetown the rule is profit and the profit is in slaves. The sisters Vroom
> are slave traders expertly taught by the matriarch to arouse the interests
> of  a prospective high return on investment stud.
> CH 8 notes
> Dixon treats the africans and Maylay people with respect and hangs out at
> the edges of Capetown. Edges are important in P’s work, as are markets.
> The edges of an ecosystem is where the action and diversity is (between
> forest and meadow, jungle and mountain, ocean and land, fresh and salt
> water). Here is where the non-slave markets abound: music, food, consensual
> sex work, clothing, instruments, toys… pynchon contasts the singular
> omnipresent smell of mutton among the dutch to the diverse and savory
> cooking smells in this market area on the edge of Cape Town, rife with
> spices, fruit, wild game, vegetables, etc., monoculture vs polyculture.
>
>
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