Vineland and MDDM Washington

[jbor]

on 29/6/02 2:45 PM, Doug Millison at millison at online-journalist.com wrote:
> 
> There you go.  Who said *the only* point of Vineland is to compare
> Reagan-Bush America to Nazi Germany

Well, no-one. What I said was that you're the one making that simplistic
comparison, not the novel.

> That Pynchon makes it a point to include the Father of Our Country among
> the spectrum of slave owners who populate M&D is notable

Well, he couldn't very well have depicted him as not a slave-owner, could
he? That *would* have been revisionism. Your arguments about an "evil" GW in
_M&D_ are very weak.

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