Cars in V and the Sixties. (from Sixties research)

[Mark Kohut]

In early letter, I think I remember......to Cork Smith or maybe even
earlier, to Kirkpatrick or Faith or another friend...

On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 12:15 PM Christian Hänggi <pynchon-list at haenggi.com>
wrote:

> Hi Mark,
> Remind me again how we know that TRP read Understanding Media.
> Thanks,
> C.
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> Zitat von Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
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> Remember when Rachel Owlglass practically fucks a car in V?
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> man/woman and the human vs the mechanical in that novel.
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> Car so loved; yet full of non-easeful death. (In 1965 the major cause
> of death of those under 35 in the US was in car crashes.) So, loving cars
> is to be half-in-love with death, eh?
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> Speaking of the mechanical and V, Marshall McLuhan's first non-lit crit
> book was The Mechanical Bride, 1951, I learn from the book sale donations.
> We know TRP read McLuhan (but we only know of Understanding Media fer sure,
> right?)
> What was V?
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> NP:
> Richard Russo knows this artistically in his books set in those periods.
> And there is
> CRASH, the movie, decades later.
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> What else? Who else?
> --Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
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