Brief (sadly way OT) de-lurk

[Jane O' Sweet]

Doug Millison wrote:
> 
> You're wrong. In this discussion, a label like "extreme radical Left"
> doesn't mean much of anything. And, I'm talking about Pynchon's novels, not
> Pynchon -- please note that my previous messages in this thread point to
> story lines, characters, historical situations that Pynchon has depicted in
> V., GR, COL49, Vineland, M&D.
> 
> If you want now to turn and look at what he's published in his non-fiction
> essays, book introductions, etc., I don't think it's very difficult to
> discern Pynchon's politics, or his feelings about the economic and political
> system in which we live. Look at the Luddite essay for starters, where he
> makes explicit the notion that the factory system -- which is certainly the
> motor of the modern economy -- finds its perfection in the German death
> camps, the German long-range rocket program, and in the U.S. nuclear missile
> program that built on that foundation. That's hardly a compliment.

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