Captalism and Pynchon (was: RE: The Olympics)

[Mr Craig Clark]

 Paul Mackin writes:

> According to Andrew:
>> And If you are still an unabashed capitalist after reading Pynchon
>> then I think you missed the point. Entirely.
 
> Forgive me, but this seems awfully simplistic.
> Suspect there is more than one capitalist--even of the unabashed variety
>--on the p-list. The age spread would make it near inevitable, wouldn't it?
> Don't deny Andrew has a perfect right to think his interpretation best. 
> Personally I dislike any book with an indisputable "point" to it.

Agreed, but I think _Gravity's Rainbow_ indicates a deep hostility 
towards capitalism. A very deep hostility. Way deep. I mean, you 
thought _Capital_ was anti-capitalist, but boy you ain't seen nothing 
till you read the Rainbow.

Where the ambiguity creeps in is in regard to the alternative. Don't 
think TRP is exactly enamoured of what Orwell calls oligarchical 
collectivism, as practised in the former Soviet Union, either.

Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"