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

[Paul Mackin]

Terrance--excuse me for being such a fawning nincompoop but you've been
writing some really good posts lately.

Can I be your Barbara.

        P.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terrance" <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 10:19 PM
Subject: Re: MDMD: Print the legend but don't mention Coppola!


>
>
> 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.
>