SLSL Intro "The Way of Communication"

[Peter Pinguid]

"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."

We have no way of knowing what the present day author thinks about such
things. For all we know, he could be looking back at the author of the
intro to SL and thinking he was politically naive. If the intro tells us
anything, it tells us that Pynchon's views change over time. He is not an
easily pingeonholed, static entity.