Hidden Track

[Dave Monroe]

By the way, it's been brought to my attention that
there's an unlisted track by an unnamed artist or
group at the end of a compilation of tracks by various
Wisconsin alt.bands titled, appropriately, if not esp.
cleverly, Workman's Comp. (Peru Records, 1998), the
lyrics of which are not entirely dissimilar to those
on p. 740 of the Viking/Penguin ed. of Gravity's
Rainbow, set over a rhythm track not entirely
dissimilar to that of The Clash's "Train in Vain"
(itself an unlisted track on London Calling). 
Coincidences all around, I'm sure ...

And on that "Humboldt County" mentioned therein,
albeit somewhat later down the line ...

"Orwell's 1984 was about Communism; Pynchon's book
looks at home-grown American totalitarianism:
Nixon/Reaganism. Vineland is set in 1984 partly to
make the Orwell connection, but also because that was
one of the heaviest years of the CAMP anti-marijuana
campaign in northern California: a small-scale version
of Vietnam with helicopters and soldiers invading
Humboldt and Mendocino Counties. Pynchon sees CAMP as
a paradigm of how bad things have gotten, how far
fascist forces have dragged us from the American ideal
of personal liberty."

http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/intro.htm

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