pynchon-l-digest V2 #1794

[calbert at tiac.net]

Mr Weaver:
> 
> >Please give your examples to counter this
> 
> His portrayals of the anti Nazi protests in GR, and of U.S. unionism
> in Vineland alone is sufficient for me.  His sympathy with the
> Luddites, the Diggers (old and recent) and that "now everybody" at the
> end of GR. The Counterforce?

But doesn't Katje's band wind up compromising their efforts in a 
material way (someone needing to look back less than the twenty 
years that have passed since I read the whole ting should be able to 
fill this out)?

> Terance you are quite free to interpret the texts solely in terms of
> art and religion. I'm not going to tell you you shouldn't. Please
> refrain from telling us politicos what we should or shouldn't claim.

THen kindly offer any snippets of such "text" as may support your 
position. THere has been a tendency among those banging on Jane 
and Terrance to insist that the texts DO support such a reading, a 
scan of such posts will reveal a dearth of Pynchon, but an awful lot 
of "speaking" FOR him.....I'm foursquare behind both J&T on this, 
and have and will continue to provide specific textual support of our 
shared position..... 

Unless, of course, it is an article of dogma or "true faith" - and what 
political persuasion is defined by such a term? 

Reaganites.


> The road to wisdom is
>   very easy to express
> Err and err and err again
> And less and less and less

Piet would have his butt kicked raw by those who have been 
subjected to this kind of folly. Not all learnin' springs from stubbed 
toes........see how people STEP OVER the threshold and apply it to 
your own concept of efficient locomotion.....

love,
cfa