Rilke, etc. #1, OR, A Strong Leftist Reading of the Maestro

[Richard Romeo]

Mr. B--

I'd go along with your thesis but would you agree that Mr. P has  rather 
ambigious motives for Tristero?--the reader never knows just how 
sinister this organization really is.  Sure, there is the possibility of 
new forms of political activism such as Tristero may represent against 
the establishment, but seems to me, the jury's out on whether The crying 
at the end will institute a reign of terror or a revelation (maybe the 
same).

Seems to me as well that GR is Mr P's attempt to spell out the negatives 
of the Counter-force, only hinted at in Crying.

You also make the claim that Pynchon somehow is more concerned with 
political action (or more sympathetic) through withdrawal and eventual 
renewal in the excluded middle space and not on the preterite 
themselves--the dopers, losers, lonely folk who surf the zonal margins.  
I would slightly disagree, seeing as these fallen folk give his books 
such heart and appeal. There's a certain pessimism throughout Pynchon, 
an almost overwrought pre-occupation with loss, with efforts coming to a 
Masonian nought.  However, as you have note in your posts, there are 
compensating arrangements of political will and stoic resistance--we 
should only realize that our own methods and structures are pulled by 
the same forces of gravitional force as Theirs are (well, maybe not 
Trent Lott's).

we should all vote in the primaries--the only way to rid ourselves of 
the samll number of morons who think they're running this country.

Rich Romeo

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