MDMD: Print the legend but don't mention Coppola!

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John Lundy wrote:
> 
> Naturally I concur with your view that there's nothing in his novels that
> would offer succour to the Right, 

Naturally. That's an easy one. Pynchon is a Lefty. That's not too hard
to prove. Defining what sort of Lefty he is, now that's difficult. More
importantly, it is Pynchon's critique of the Left that matters. His
critique of the Right is candy drill cartoonish--Ray-Gun, Zhlubb, etc.,
but his critique of the Left is bitter and sour grapes. He's
particularly rough on the bookish Lefty intellectuals, be they college
professors or philosophers, and he returns again and again to their
betrayal and to their self-serving supercilious defense of the true
preterit working class.