BE ch 5 noir touch

[Mark Kohut]

 ..../"the anthem of nineties workplace fecklessness, playing faster and
faster and accompanied by screams of anxiety."...

A little foreshadowing as the English teachers might say? Or the thing
itself, the anxiety of this kind of work in nineties NYC?--and wherever it
is like that.
My NYC friend who escaped into online solitaire all during a long workday,
in bewteen working very hard---it was not the tech world but the publishing
world--was obviously seeking stress release.

Where else are there screams in Pynchon. That opening rocket, of course,
and the sandworms in the desert chapter of* Against the Day? *Crushings,
both?

And where there is also a submarine, that metaphor for Maxine awash in the
sewers in NYC.

On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 1:18 AM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> a few more noirish lines that seem to set up the exchange with Driscoll
> Padgett, where a distinctly different  post dot com vibe kicks in. Driscoll
> rings true.
>
> " But it’s too nice, a sitting duck,”
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> "try to summon the ghost vendor out of its nimbus of crafted silence."
> >>>>>>>
> artificial bamboo trees framing a reception desk of wood blonder than the
> blonde stationed behind it,
> >>>>>>>>>>
>  the anthem of nineties workplace fecklessness, playing faster and faster
> and accompanied by screams of anxiety. Ghost vendor indeed. Has she entered
> some supernatural timewarp where the shades of office layabouts continue to
> waste uncountable person-hours playing Tetris?
> >>>>>>>>>>
> “That maybe Web design wasn’t really their main business?” The girl nods,
> consciously, as if somebody might be monitoring.
>
> > On Nov 21, 2021, at 12:41 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> >
> > Maxine goes to check out hwgaahwgh.com <http://hwgaahwgh.com/>  .
> Pronounced WOW? A pirate groan? any ideas on this name?
> >
> >
> > "MAXINE APPROACHES the address from the other side of the street, and as
> soon as she catches sight of it, her heart, if it does not sink exactly, at
> least cringes more tightly into the one-person submarine necessary for
> cruising the sinister and labyrinthine sewers of greed that run beneath all
> real-estate dealings in this town.”
> >
> > You know he felt prety good after writing that  classic  black humor
> noir style line with key Pynchon theme of real estate ponzi , a theme quite
> fresh when BE was published.
> >
> > "the sinister and labyrinthine sewers of greed”  yeah,
> >
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