SLSL Racial Differences

[Bahia Quasimodo]

--- MalignD at aol.com wrote:

 Pynchon  might believe himself "poor and powerless";
it's all relative and there are 
> the likes of Bill Gates, Saudi oil princes, and
> Rupert Murdoch to compare 
> himself to.
> 
> I don't think for a minute this is what he's saying.
>  if he is, he's an idiot.


It doesn't look like we're going to be able to make
sense of this sentence. However, if we look at some of
Pynchon's other essays (circa 1980) we can identify
what I think is Pynchon's (maybe it's idiotic or
simple) view. 

It's not too complicated. There is a powerful wealthy
elite and then there is the rest of us poor sheep. As
sheep, we are relatively poor and powerless (even if
we have a million dollars in our IRA, a few thousand
shares of MRK, property on the gold coast of LI, 
Mexico, and Manhattan. Even if we are a famous Rock &
Roller or a Novelist or a film maker or M&M, we are
relatively poor and powerless. Sometimes it sounds
like Pynchon is talking about Brazil and not the USA.
Sometimes he seems to be talking about an elite that
knows no boundaries (Multinationals/Governments/Elite)
and keeps the world poor while it grows bigger and
richer and more and more powerful. 

We're all familair with this view. 

Pynchon may hold this view or not but it is an
essential view in his fiction from V. to M&D. Not as
politics, but as the traditional stuff that fiction is
made on--plot, character, narrative, theme, symbols,
etc. 

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