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

[Mark Kohut]

https://extension.psu.edu/callery-pear

On Sat, Sep 12, 2026 at 3:04 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>    -
>>
>>    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.
>>
>>    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
>>
>>    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:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> On 12/09/2026 18:30, Mark Kohut wrote:
>>> > https://x.com/japan_nobunaga/status/2098819428263563329?s=20
>>> > --
>>> > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>>> --
>>> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>>>
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