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

[Mark Kohut]

Joseph's focus on the markets and on food, yes, quite important in TRP and
in M & D one sees the first globalization
market of the West; a globalization market because of Empire (I guess;
another earlier? then this is just another step-up function  historically)
and food from elsewhere
concentrated on way more than the agriculture-based world of the New World
in M & D.

So, another layer beyond the actual historical reality
and one that shows America, the new world, in a pattern
even more extensive in the 20th century, when the book was published.

On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 6:12 PM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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