Manohla Dargis in the NYT... wow. Why books and films matter.....

[Mark Kohut]

To Tracy’s point: it reminds me of the bureaucrat on the phone for the
resistance.

On Sun, Oct 5, 2025 at 7:47 AM Michael Lee Bailey via Pynchon-l <
pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:

> I always sit in a different seat from the ticket -
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> Viva la resistance!
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> -------- Original Message --------
> J Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
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> Ludicrously they had given me a ticket with a seat number, which the lady
> insisted was important despite  knowing there were only 3 other people
> there. Where does this allegiance to pretense  come from?  I ignored it
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