The Crying of Lot 49: Chapter 2
Mapping the Zone: A Thomas Pynchon discussion podcast
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The History of the Military Industrial Complex
Rocketdyne was an American rocket engine design and production company headquartered in Canoga Park in the western San Fernando Valley. I always read it as it's kind of a thinly veiled Boeing connection to his time there but I you know I could be wrong it's a speculation. Oh there's there's another dying company Rocketdyne maybe. So in this particular case yeah yeah yeah but it's more generally I think yo-yo dying is just an amalgamation of all the different aerospace giants.
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