Vineland

[Kathleen Fitzpatrick]

On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Thomas Vieth wrote:

> I think the Tube is much more important. The Tube not only Vineland's
> variation on Gravity'S Rainbow's Hollywood movies (which would make it
> important enough as metaphor and allegory), but it is also the very
> instrument of fascism! Think of the passage close to the end, where the
> older folks of the family reunion sit around and wonder wether the
> darkness of political America is only lit by a bunch of tubes. When I
> remember correctly even the term fascism appears somewhere there.

The debate amongst the old folks is over whether America still lingers in
a "pre-fascist twilight" or whether that light is just that emanating from
the Tube.

Kathleen