Operation Mindfuck

[Mark Kohut]

To me, CoL49 is V. brought totally home to these United States, so to
speak. Everything of P's vision is so
distilled in it.....and as an X--ray pattern of eternal America, it still
holds and always has.



On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 8:54 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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