Operation Mindfuck

[David Morris]

I’ve always thought that COL49 was an overlong one trick pony.  And I
really disliked Ecco’s The Name of the Rose, for the same reason:
 Conspiracies are like assholes...

David Morris

On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 7:53 PM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> howdy
>
> mentioned in passing in Adam Curtis' new work, Kerry Thornley
> planting references to worldwide conspiracies (and the Illuminati) in
> Playboy magazine and 'plays' in the late 1960s(?) does ring a bill doesn't
> it? No doubt folks like Charles Hollander have been all over this
>
> I just finished another re-read of Lot49 and it seems to me Pynchon
> may have less love for that work seeing as he already covered similar
> ground in V., quests and impending revelations and things that harbor like
> being epic, man. But maybe he was fed up with the conspiracy game even back
> then and burns it to the ground in GR, but this time with more
> explicit references to real-world blue meanies. Lot 49 is rather coy about
> such things.
>
> rich
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