BE: This has to echo (via loss) the famous ending of Great Gatsby, set on Long Island, of course.---"long Atlantic wilderness" and "terminal toehold"

[Mark Kohut]

Magnificent, I say, Rich.....

On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 9:31 AM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> If we look at Pynchon's work in terms of the time periods (I know time
> being relative in Pynchon world),  it is interesting to see that boomerang
> effect in at least the US, beginning in colonial times, outward expansion,
> violence, the midwest industrials, the prairies, mountains, mines, alas
> California and then the slow trek backwards to that fateful tip of Long
> Island, the mapping into certainties that defined America's growth, leads
> us to this dense concentration and collapsing into the terminal at most
> eastern point (relatively), defense contractors belly busting on either
> shore, the country dotted with these tiny bits of 'other' each slowly
> stomped on or rotted from within (the counterforces, communes, unions,
> anarchists, the Chums, the unexplored lands, Deep Archer), if we are
> viewing Chum-like from above. If BE be Pynchon's last, he has in some way,
> returned home, all of us left pretty much worrying, caring, loving those
> dear to us. Maybe that is all we have left he seems to be saying against
> the monstrous things out there: V, rockets, Trystero, the EIC, the FBI, the
> old Scarsdales and new Ices of this world
>
> rich
>
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 6:43 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> it’s all converging here, all Long Island, the defense factories,
>> > the homicidal traffic, the history of Republican sin forever unremitted,
>> > the relentless suburbanizing, miles of mowed yards, contractor hardpan,
>> > beaverboard and asphalt shingling, treeless acres, all concentrating,
>> all
>> > collapsing, into this terminal toehold before the long Atlantic
>> wilderness.”
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>