The Crying of Lot 49, Group Read 2024

[Joseph Tracy]

The black tristero agents are hired killers, not anarchists. You are conflating The Waste of Oedipa’s SanFramcisco experience with the hired murderers of Angelo. The bums in the Dylan song were also hired killers who had a remarkable likeness to CIA agents. 

> On Jun 20, 2024, at 6:36 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> If the three bums in this great song are loosely associated with the anarchists in black then that's yours. 
> 
> They are not to me.....Dylan's bums here are not even close to the anarchist associations in Pynchon or his own
> Watchtower song imo.......
> 
> These bums are us.....
> 
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 8:08 PM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net <mailto:brook7 at sover.net>> wrote:
>> ...
>> There’s three bums comin’ all dressed in rags
>> Pick up the pieces and lower the flags...
>> 
>> They mutilated his body and took out his brain
>> What more could they do, they piled on the pain
>> But his soul was not there where it was supposed to be at
>> For the last fifty years they’ve been searching for that
>> Freedom, oh freedom, freedom over me
>> Hate to tell you, Mister, but only dead men are free
>>               Murder Most Foul.     Bob Dylan
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jun 19, 2024, at 5:57 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com <mailto:mark.kohut at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> P. "the anarchist dressed all in black"....like Driblette's assassins
>>> and the Tystero Force....the main part--the essence of it?
>>> 
>>> Which is why it is disruptive but also sometimes violent?
>>> 
>>> I often think of Dylan's two men on horseback in *All Along the Watchtower*
>>> 
>>> and Pynchon's two riders in* Against the Day....*
>>> --
>>> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>>> 
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