Absences in VL

[Sebastian Dangerfield]

Greg offers 
>The first couple of times I read the book, I never noticed the
absence...
>I'm sure there were people who were vitally concerned with the Vietnam
>issue [. . . ] the majority of the folks I knew were attending rallies
and SDS meetings >precisely for the reasons stated above [sex, drugs and
R&R]  

Thanks for your message.  Speaking as one who is too young to have
absorbed much more than the Mythology of the Sixties (born in the Year of
the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, a little-known Chinese Astrological Sign),
I appreciate your reflections.

I think that what I'm getting at is that part fo the VL project is
certainly a de-mythologization of the sixties, telling us that it really
wasn't all about the War . . . that the sixties was the outhouse of the
postwar soul . . .  that there's not such a gulf between many
participants of that generation as they were then and are in 1984 . . .
that Frenesi wasn't so much seduced by the Svengali stare of BV as she
was searching for 'order' when her viewfinder landed on him . . . that
vanity of vanities sayeth the preacher, all is vanity . . . 

It's not a very nice story.  It's a pretty bitter tale.  

"After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now" (from _Gerontion_)
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