BEg2 chapter 7 into 8

[Mark Kohut]

An Iceland Spar-like split into two vaule system images?

*hawala*
"an informal value transfer system based on the performance and honour of a
huge network of money brokers, which are primarily located in the Middle
East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and the Indian subcontinent. It is
basically a parallel or alternative remittance system that exists or
operates outside of, or parallel to traditional banking or financial
channels." Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala>

On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 4:38 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> “But if the route in is erased behind you, how do you get back out?”
>
>          “Click your heels three times,” Lucas sez, “and . . . no wait,
> that’s something else . . .”
>
>
> As far as we know, then, the bros never do reveal to Maxine how to get back
> out?
>
> Reference to Wizard of Oz in IV Sauncho (I always associate him with HST’s
> attorney in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) brings it up, how the
> transition from b&w to color occurs in the movie and how there is a further
> transition implied - pretty spacy stuff - since it’s representing such a
> transition from the actual color world of Kansas which even though it was
> Dust Bowl still would’ve had regular color, in which case the world of Oz
> would have meta-color…
>
> Which is the groovy transition (regular experience before computers,
> meta-experience with them) the world is trying to go through as opposed to
> the gnarly transition imposed by 9-11?
>
> Chapter 8
>
> Reg & the cheese Danish.
> Harkening back - is it harkening or hearkening?
>
> This guy
> https://brians.wsu.edu/2016/05/19/hark-hearken/
> thinks it’s neither, but should be “hark.”
>
> Harking back to the numerous paintings of cheese Danishes in V.
>
> Just as a personal note, I’ve only very recently - like this week - begun
> to appreciate the goodness of a cheese Danish. Avoided them most of my
> life.
> Like Slab, then, are these my declining years?
>
>
> Hawala & Kim Novak?
>
> Pynchonwiki has the answer:
>
> *hawala*
> "an informal value transfer system based on the performance and honour of a
> huge network of money brokers, which are primarily located in the Middle
> East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and the Indian subcontinent. It is
> basically a parallel or alternative remittance system that exists or
> operates outside of, or parallel to traditional banking or financial
> channels." Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala>
>
> *"Kim Novak comes floating down the river"*
> The 1955 film *Picnic* features a small town festival, where every year a
> woman is named Queen of Neewollah ("Halloween" spelled backwards). Kim
> Novak floating in the boat can be seen in the final seconds of the film's
> trailer <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1A1vqmkftw>
>
> Is there any reason, other than a typo, that the film in "Bleeding Edge" is
> said to have come out in 1956? Wiki says it had a limited release in
> November 1955 and went nationwide in 1956.
>
> Odd trivia fact about "Picnic." This is the film that James Vicary in 1957
> lied about containing subliminal messages that successfully caused people
> to drink more Coke and eat more popcorn. Read more
> <http://www.snopes.com/business/hidden/popcorn.asp> about the famous hoax.
>
>
>
>
> So if there is a low tech hawala network, where does Hashslingrz come in?
> Since a lot of their traffic is going to the Arabic speaking world?
>
> At this point the trust-based personal hawala network whose practitioners
> “keep it all in their heads” seems to be introduced as a contrast to the
> endemic mistrust of Hashslingrz and also all the fraudsters Maxine lives to
> frustrate.
>
>
> Reg’s friend hacked a Furby -
> “now when I want I can stroll by with a pickup inside my Nagra 4 and
> download all kinds of confidential stuff.”
>
>
>          Nagra 4 audiophile audio recorder (kinda retro for 2001 but so
> attractive)
>
> (Robin Landeasel probably has one)
>
>
> https://www.redsharknews.com/audio/item/6347-one-audio-recorder-to-rule-them-all-a-look-back-at-the-nagra-iv?hs_amp=true
>
> One reason to wear cargo pants or carry a backpack, Eric wouldn’t walk
> around holding this.
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