BEg2 Chap 8 Summary Part 1

[Mark Kohut]

Now it must be repeated again, he repeats: Pynchon parodies EVERYTHING,
basically.

On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 5:04 PM Huebschraeuber via Pynchon-l <
pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:

> It is clear that one of Pynchon's sources for 9/11 is Michael Ruppert's
> "Crossing the Rubicon" because the story of the Israeli microchip can be
> found there, and only there (apart from Ruppert's online magazine "From
> the Wilderness" where it was published first).
>
> This also helps to explain why the biggest, let us say, mystery of 9/11
> is not mentioned in BE: The free-fall collapse of WTC7. It is not
> mentioned by Ruppert, iirc.
>
> "The principal conclusion of our study is that fire did not cause the
> collapse of WTC 7 on 9/11, contrary to the conclusions of NIST and
> private engineering firms that studied the collapse. The secondary
> conclusion of our study is that the collapse of WTC 7 was a global
> failure involving the near-simultaneous failure of every column in the
> building."
>
> https://ine.uaf.edu/wtc7
>
>
>
>
> Am 10.12.2021 um 20:28 schrieb Joseph Tracy:
> > “Which you think is more serious than simple fraud. What could be that
> big of a deal?”
> >   “You’re the expert, Maxine. If it was a classic fraud haven, Grand
> Cayman or whatever, it’d be one thing. But this is the Mideast, and
> somebody’s going to way too much trouble to keep secrets, as if Ice or
> somebody in his shop ain’t just squirreling it away but bankrolling
> something, something big and invisible—”  BE pg 83
> >
> >   I will probably get slammed for this but ….Let us suppose  or at least
> ask iourselves if this secretive movement of money  centered on Dubai is or
> could be something real and related to 9-11.  Is it something that appears
> elsewhere? Could Pynchon, who seems to have some interesting sources of
> hard-to-access information and research be using fiction to make
> suggestions about who might have been in on the 9-11 plan beside Salafists
> temporarily centered in Afghanistan?
> > Or is it a red herring? All I can say is by the time P wrote BE there
> had been a great deal of research into this event and to many people’s
> dissatisfaction, including family-members-of-victims  who were part of 9-11
> commission, many incriminating leads were abandoned due to the US’s
> friendly and lucrative relationship with Saudi Arabia  and the
> inconvenience of digging too deep into conflicting evidence regarding the
> mainstream narrative.
> > Dubai is a weird place, the international London/Switzerland of
> Arab/Islamic finance, a major world tourist destination and a safe haven
> for western interests, money operating in the Gulf. Its power and wealth
> have steadily increased since the gulf wars. If i recall, all the hijackers
> were either Saudis or UAE( Dubai).
> >
> > Would a high tech ’security” business be needed to facilitate hiding
> something this big, the movement of money, paying bribes, moving and
> silencing the right people, etc. ?  My own skepticism has a lot to do with
> how much the narrative was controlled in an event that left so many
> questions and loose ends. I don’t have a theory, but am unsatisfied with
> the dismissal of legitimate questions.
> >
> >   I can only say that it really seems to me that Pynchon too has
> questions about that narrative and has written what  seems like a goofy
> detective story spiced with dead-end paranoia  and a more obvious red
> herring ( the  Kennedy-esque rooftop event)to remind us that some serious
> questions that really do demand the deeepest and most thorough attempt at
> resolution have been buried, while horrifyingly misdirected wars have been
> pursued with no positive result.
>
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