VV(13) - Buck Fush!

[Dave Monroe]

Now, like that line about "only 1 per cent of six
million, but still pretty good" at p. 245, this is an
excellent example of one of those moments where those
Pynchonian texts play off what we know, a certain
sinister "foreshadowing" (though, of course, we
already know what is casting those shadows) delivered
via a certain mordant, bitter, even, irony.  Though I
don't think the text is here quite mocking The League
of Nations, certainly not in the same way Weissmann,
as you note, does later.  Perhaps the comparison is to
be mae in their similar seeming ignorance of,
indifference to and/or ultimate ineffectuality in the
face of that "ploitcal chaos howl[ing] outside."  What
are the politics of Fasching, of that "siege party,"
here?  And what are the possible, potential, likely
effects of said "politics"?  In South Africa or
otherwise?  This might be the question to ask here ...
 

--- David Morris <fqmorris at hotmail.com> wrote:
> ----------
> (235) A curious crew were thus thrown together.
> [...] a tiny European 
> Conclave or League of Nations, assembled here while
> political chaos howled 
> outside.
> ----------
> 
> This is a very sucinct description.  We have a union
> of colonizing forces at 
> Foppl's Siege Party.  "Seiege" is really a joke for
> these folks.  And so 
> also is the implied nobility of the League of
> Nations.  Thus Weissmann's 
> laugh at Mondaugen's naive "The Protectorate? But
> it's under the League of 
> Nations"...



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