BE Read. Chap 11.

[Mark Kohut]

March Kelleher's eight grade commencement speech. (Another P jab at March's
meanings, I suggest).

"once upon a time, there was a city with a powerful ruler who liked to
creep around town in disguise, doing his work in secret."
Nice allusion to plays, say, Shakespeare famously for one, in which this
happens. perhaps most famously in* Measure for Measure*
seemingly one of TRP's faves since he took a story title (with resonances)
from it....

in BE, as we have seen everywhere, money is the measure.

Didn't really apply to Guliani analogously in 2001 did it?, dunno, except
that most of the ruled must have felt the ruling was done in secrecy...
and TRP suggests? secret doings did rule.......

And the 'parable' is all about radical challenges to the ruler being bought
off. The history of the Left in America thru March? and does Pynchon agree?
Measure for measure.

March: "I don't do lunch. Corrupt artifact of late capitalism, Breakfast,
maybe?" ......F'in hilarious as Dr Hilarious and tell me P isn't
mocking---taking the measure--
 of March's character?