SLSL Intro "The Way of Communication"

[pynchonoid]

I meant to quote the entire Pynchon line:  "the
failure of college kids and blue-collar workers to get
together politically."  



> 
> > davidmmonroe at yahoo.com wrote:
> > 
> > > Argue all y'all want about possible
> > > Pynchonian ironies here, this seems as
> > > straightforwardly, and decidedly aligned
> ("perhaps
> > we
> > > should have been," "The success of the 'new
> left'
> > ...
> > > was to be limited"), a political statement as
> > > Pynchon's ever allowed to be signed, authorized,
> > with,
> > > by his name ...

--- pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> Indeed. What strikes me is the sense of regret and
> the
> lack of blame as Pynchon looks back at that "failure
> of college workers to get together politically" -- a
> far cry from the way some Pynchon readers use this
> Intro to try to demonstrate that Pynchon blames the
> "new left" for that failure or castigate them for it
> or leap from these statementsto the conclusion that
> his political sympathies lie elsewhere.  The closest
> Pynchon comes to assessing blame is "One reason was
> the presence of real, invisible class force fields"
> --
> apparently, in '84, class differences loom large in
> his understanding recent history. And I'm willing to
> bet next year's pay that P still understands the
> class
> forces that -- just to name one such possibility
> that
> sometimes weighs heavily on my mind -- would let
> Bush
> and Cheney and the rest of those chickenhawks send a
> bunch of less fortunate young men and women to die
> (and kill innocent civilians in the process) for
> their
> right to profit from oil and arms sales in a war on
> Iraq.  
> 
> -Doug



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