BEg2 chapter 2 my .02

[Mark Kohut]

Wow...wonderful and

*STAMPS*, man, as someone is always saying from* Lot 49 *on....

An alternative postal "situation", f'in fabulous....

On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 7:53 AM Tucker Anderson <anderson.tucker.g at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Duck stamps seem like something that Pynchon would have a small fascination
> with. Functionally, the stamps serve as a fee that hunters pay in order to
> take a migratory bird that is federally regulated (unlike hunting of other
> non-migratory game species, all of which are regulated by the states). No
> stamp on your license; no hunting rights for migratory fowl. The fee serves
> a number of conservation purposes, including the tagging and tracking of
> waterfowl flyways. I haven't had the good fortune of getting one, but some
> of my friends have taken a duck that has a tracking band-- the hunter is
> instructed to call in to a 24-hour hotline to report where the bird was
> shot. The operator will then relay information about where the duck was
> tagged, how old it is, and any known locations over its migratory life.
>
> The stamps are also a grand dupe-- a way to encourage those who are not
> hunting to contribute to the North American conservation model. With
> declining numbers of hunters, our various state and federal administrative
> bureaucracies have devised unique and interesting "stamps" to encourage
> charitable giving from wildlife enthusiasts. The states use the funds
> primarily to buy land and apply permanent wildlife management easements--
> the establishment of public trust lands. In my state, the annual "habitat
> stamp" is the equivalent of a "support our troops" ribbon circa 2002. Every
> truck and boat has a collection of the stamps prominently displayed. A
> signal to all on the road- and water-ways that the operator has accumulated
> years of hunting experience all while contributing to the increased
> conversion of private territory to public commons.
>
> All this to say: stamps are a conspiracy.
>
> -Tucker
>
> On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 11:32 PM Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Duck stamps - recurring motif, CoL49 & AtD
> >
> > AtD even has the bit about sticking the precious rarity on a letter
> >
> > “Irwin always pays retail, being the 301.83 in the relationship” - 301.83
> > being the DSM code for Borderline Personality Disorder
> >
> > On stamp collecting, seems like a kind of cool habit if you look at it
> > right. It can accumulate value, but also having a stamp collection makes
> > you have to arrange them, put them in a protective covering, have a safe
> > place to keep all that, lore about the stamps, other collectors, some
> > source of income to support the habit.
> > Like Zoyd’s ham-shaped trailer, eventually you end up building a house
> > around it.
> > Maybe I’ll start collecting stamps myself.
> >
> >
> > Hashslingrz what is their deliverable?
> > I map them to Google
> >
> > And hwgaawgh to YouTube -
> >
> >  I conceive their relationship of hwgaawgh’s subornation by Hashslingrz
> as
> > an exaggerated version of Google acquiring YouTube (which was actually
> > founded in 2005 and acquired in 2006 - I remember when people first
> started
> > posting YouTube links to the p-list)
> >
> > This is fuzzy logic on my part. The parts I like best are the human
> > relations & the wordplay/jokes so I form a big clay Golem McGuffin out of
> > other things that seem important but are less pleasing to contemplate.
> This
> > is one of those.
> >
> > Fiction fictitiously applied to fiction, but such details as I’ve
> ferreted
> > out do point to Hashslingrz being one of those companies needing lots of
> > servers and locations, so Gabriel Ice would be like an amalgam of Jeff
> > Bezos, the Google guys, and the rapacity of Bill Gates & the
> > want-to-control-everything of Steve Jobs…
> > Sort of a one-stop corporate bad guy Scarsdale Vibe for the new
> millennium.
> >
> > But this is one reason I value these reads so highly, they tend towards,
> as
> > Paige Browning said in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, “transcending the
> > bullshit.”
> >
> > Actually reading the more involved parts instead of giving them a
> probably
> > inaccurate tag* and moving on to the next joke or characterization or the
> > next expletive, like Fat Freddy of the Furry Freak Brothers does when the
> > students occupy the library and he goes looking for the “fuck books,” is
> > something I rarely do without peer pressure.
> >
> > So - glad to be here!
> >
> >
> > * I often repeat how I missed the part in the Kafka story where the guy
> > turns into a bug, and wrote a paper without knowing that plot element.
> > Couldn’t figure out why everyone was so nasty to him, but focused the
> paper
> > on the relationship with his father.
> > Still made a B, but one could do better.
> > --
> > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
> >
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