Pynchon's wide river of possible influences OR more synchronicity.

[Mark Kohut]

I think of the casino wheel symbol in *Against the Day *and, of course,*
Bleeding Edge *entire.

"Strange had earlier published *Casino Capitalism*
<http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781784991340/> (1986), a
prescient study of how the financial markets’ escape from democratic
accountability prefigured major problems. It is sad that she did not live
to see what she had so assiduously warned against. (Her LSE colleague Fred
Halliday recalled “a person of indomitable optimism, humour and mordant
tongue” whose “favourite slogan was: ‘Always attack the economists!’” [see "The
revenge of ideas: Karl Polanyi and Susan Strange
<https://opendemocracy.net/article/the-revenge-of-ideas-karl-polanyi-and-susan-strange>”,
24 September 2008]). Even without the benefit of her analysis it should not
have been hard to read the signs in the early 2000s at latest, but most
analysts contrived to miss them."
                -----From a longer article at Open Democracy that no one
will read.