Bleeding Edge's pear tree....yes?

[Mark Kohut]

I might argue, now, that this is another possible metaphor of genius from
Our Boy....it frames the storyline
from Spring to Spring with new life....AND this plant from elsewhere is an
immigrant plant, so to speak....
very hardy, hard to kill, a beautiful flower with a new odor---pungent,
smelling bad as some perceive immigrants
to be.....exploding into light.....the future of NYC and the US....

On Sat, Sep 12, 2026 at 2:54 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> I do not think that is "clear" at all...
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>    The rising sun illuminates the Callery Pear trees lining the streets,
>    which have suddenly burst overnight into clusters of bright white blossoms.
>    With that pungent odor.
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>    The story spans a single volatile year leading up to and immediately
>    following the events of September 11, 2001, concluding as the pear trees
>    "explode into bloom" again on the following year's great turning point.
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>    I think its "toughness' and ability to survive, part of what gets it
>    labeled as "invasive"I guess, hard to killl --it is only one pear tree in *Bleeding
>    Edge* if I am not mistaken, somewhere near the park at Riverside
>    Drive, correct?...is what Pynchon
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>    was driving at....the normal uses of a tree/plant/nature as
>    metaphors....
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> On Sat, Sep 12, 2026 at 2:39 PM Mike Weaver via Pynchon-l <
> pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:
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>> Bloody forriners, thriving and taking homes from native dwellers,
>> encouraged by the deep state arborists.
>>
>> A couple of days ago I was reading a discussion on invading plants in
>> USA, on Reddit's Whatsthisplant. This led me to a website on the subject
>> and Callery Pears were a big villain. It seems originally sterile clones
>> were planted, but grafted on a close relative and flowers on shoots from
>> the rootstock pollinated by the flowers on the main plant  were not
>> sterile and the damned things are now spreading and crowding out native
>> species. Clearly in BE they are a stand in for continued imperialism -
>> the indigenous humans corralled into reservations, now it is the native
>> plants turn.
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>> On 12/09/2026 18:30, Mark Kohut wrote:
>> > https://x.com/japan_nobunaga/status/2098819428263563329?s=20
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>> > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
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>> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
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