COL49 _Courier's Tragedy_

[Dave Monroe]

And, of course, we are "all just whizzes at pursuing
strange words in Jacobean"--not to mention
Pynchonian--"texts" as well.  Oedipa, c'est moi ...

--- Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> What if that "over-accumulation of signs,"
> "revelations" blinds a young Republican "unfit
> perhaps for marches and sit-ins" (p. 104) to, say,
> poverty, loneliness, alcoholism, racism, 
> anti-semitism, homophobia, social unrest, political
> extremism, political intrigue, the
> military-industrial complex, military adventurism
> (Vietnam IS explicitly mentioned, p. 108), et al.,
> hidden in plain sight?  
> 
> Again, that "legacy," that "inheritance."  "This is
> America, you live in it, you let it happen.  Let it
> unfurl" (and note the flag[-waving] imagery there). 
> Point is, is Oedipa missing both trees and forest
> here ...

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