Vineland, anonymity, limbo

[Andrew Dinn]

Hartwin Alfred Gebhardt writes:

> I also 
> quoted the above passage recently (or parts thereof) - it is, I 
> think, the key to unravel much of TRPs attitude towards the sixties 
> in general, and the USA-dominated post-WW2 zone in particular (in 
> _all_ his works).

Another key quote is Isaiah 2-4's comment regarding the sell-out of
Zoyd's generation to television (`Problem with your folks generation
is...' it comes early on when Isaiah is hoping to get money out of
Zoyd for a family entertainment, ethnologically sound, shoot-em-up
adventure park involving guns, slum buildings and used TVs). He
describes TV as reducing the hippies to `el deado meato' aka
thanatoids and the price was `way too cheap'. The irony of this
sitting alongside his Thatcherite/Reaganite entrepreneurial bull
(there must be a pun in there somewhere about converting weapons into
shares) seems to be lost on Isaiah.


Andrew Dinn
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