Literacy (is Re: Harry Potter)

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In einer eMail vom 05.07.00 22:06:03 (MEZ) - Mitteleurop. Sommerzeit schreibt 
fqmorris at hotmail.com:

<< 
 >From: Doug Millison
 >
 >I defer to Pynchon's devastating critique in Vineland, where he depicts the 
 >Tube as a disease that robs us of our history and our dreams, a weapon and 
 >tool in the hands of those forces that co-opted the 60s revolution and gave 
 >us Reagan.
 >
 
 How easily you state the above as if it were true.  During the last VLVL you 
 tried to do the same, but were less than convincing because we were all 
 reading along.  Pynchon is not so simple-minded.
  >>
I read Vineland in exactly the same  way as Doug. And what is "simple-minded" 
about it? Of course it's a political statement. But political statements are 
always "one-sided" because they force us to make a decision. You can devide 
the literary Pynchon and the political Pynchon, but the political one is 
absolutely clear und cannot be misunderstood. I think the people who don't 
like Vineland don't like the politicial Pynchon in it.
kwp