SLSL Intro "The Way of Communication"

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on 11/5/02 5:52 PM, pynchonoid at pynchonoid at yahoo.com wrote:

> --- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
>> one can safely assume Pynchon
>> was a one of the "college
>> kids", or student radicals
> 
> Pynchon was obviously a college kid, of course, but I
> don't think the Intro makes it clear at all that he
> was a student radical.  Pynchon left Cornell to join
> the US Navy, after all, not to join Castro in the
> mountains to fight against Batista.
> 
> 
>> Most college radicals don't join foreign revolutionary armies. They do drugs
in Daddy's rumpus room. John Walker Lindh is a notable exception. The
difference between him and the Weather Underground, SLA, and Red Brigade
etc. is that he had to travel to foreign countries to make a murderous
jackass of himself. Pynchon joined the Navy. Many kids did. I watched them
leave. They came back opposed to war. I take them seriously. I take Pynchon
seriously. I despise Chicken Hawks (such as Dubya and Dan Quayle) and I
despise college radicals. They are of the same ilk. Sorry to inject politics
into this but Pynchon's statement in the intro is overtly political. It must
be addressed. Pynchon brings up the breakdown in communication and for once
it is non-fiction. The American left alienated their natural allies in the
working class through elitism. The American right divided (and still does)
the working class through race. The children of the working class of all
races got their asses shot off in Viet Nam and will die in Iraq. I love GR
because it looks at global violence from a PERSONAL perspective. I'm
convinced that that could not have come from a person who did not have
experience with men of war.

Peace (I mean it)
Joe__________________________________________
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