BE Read. Chap 11.

[Mark Kohut]

Further reflections while shaving. Adumbrated here.

Why would I just think Guliani and NYC? .....This is a parable, maybe,
about all the hidden money that rules the nation. More to come must leave
now.

On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 6:07 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
>