SLSL Intro "The Way of Communication"

[Dave Monroe]

Talking about past events, is all, not (necessarily)
past sentiments.  "We," "the 'new left.'"  But note
also the sixties revisionism of, say, Rorty and Farber
as I've posted here, my suspicion has been for some
time here that Pynchon shares certain misgivings with
them, about, say, that psychoanalytically, libidinally
inflected cultural left (hence my periodic postings
from Marcuse) and the perhaps lost opportunity he
notes in that "Introducton."  Okay, definitely,
Vineland next, Rorty and Farber have me interested
again in precisely "the" American political history
Pynchon draws upon therein ...

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> on 5/11/02 3:58 AM, Dave Monroe at
> 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 ...
> 
> It is indeed. N.B. past tense.

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