Vineland

[jbor]

on 28/6/02 6:37 AM, Doug Millison at millison at online-journalist.com wrote:

> Brock Vond works for the Reagan-Bush
> Administration, so when Pynchon describes him as one of "the sleek raptors
> that decorate fascist architecture" the text does invite us to compare Nazi
> Germany and Reagan-Bush America.

You do mean Nixon-Reagan, don't you? But if you read the novel a little more
closely you'll also note that Brock and his programs have been around since
the mid-late 60s at least, since before the siege at the College of the
Surf. Seems to me as if that "fascist architecture" has been around for some
time prior to 1970. (Vineland 268-9)

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