BEg2 chapter 11 March’s parable / March on conspiracies

[Michael Bailey]

In a word, Trump. Buying off press et al.

Also, it harkens back to the Vineland passage about Brock Vond and the old
lady in the attic.




 “I see my share of conspiracy theories, some are patently bullshit, some I
want to believe so much I have to be careful, others are inescapable even
if I wanted to escape.”

That’s pretty true.
Montauk - which category? A little bit of all.

There’s got to be some weirdness in a Pynchon book. Montauk was a Tesla lab
one time, wasn’t it?
Popular book _The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time_ and the series
“Stranger Things” mined this vein. Great anchor for the weirdness. And for
an ascent (or descent?) into allegorical treatment of such philosophical
questions as the nature of time, and what is it that makes people Windusty
- answer, they were subjected to time travel as kids! Leaning away from
literalism into speculation about how this relate to theories of history (a
very mild form of time travel but puissant enough) & the effect of
Windust’s possibly real love for Xiomara pulling him in a different
direction from this nightmare.

Xiomara name from Wikipedia:

Xiomara is a feminine Spanish given name, which is possibly a variant of
Guiomar and derived from the German name Wigmar, which means "*battle ready*"
or "battle famous".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiomara_Castro
The new President-elect and former First Lady of Honduras.