not MD more shocking fraud

[Dave Monroe]

See, however ...

Thoreen, David.  "The President's Emergency War
   Powers and the Erosion of Civil Liberties in
   Pynchon's Vineland."  Oklahoma City University
   Law Review, Vol. 24, No. 3 (1999): 761-98.

   "With the phrase '[d]uly sworn officers ... bound
to uphold the Constitution,' Pynchon directs us--just
as he did in Gravity's Rainbow--to '[f]ollow the
bouncing ball,' this time from deputized to
deputizing, all the way up the chain of command to the
nation's Chief Executive and Commander in Chief. The
man in the Oval Office has also sworn to uphold the
Constitution, and should not be exempt." (p. 795)

   "For some Americans, the loss of civil liberties
during the Reagan-Bush years can be assigned a
definite cost indeed: the value of their seized
assets. Because federal, state, and local budgets are
now dependent on policies such as asset seizure,
because of a slew of NSDD's, and because the majority
of the justices now sitting on the Supreme Court are
conservative Reagan and Bush appointees, it may be a
generation or two before our civil rights are restored
to their pre-Reagan status--if they ever are. 
Pynchon, in Vineland, has reversed the familiar
commandment from the Wizard of Oz, encouraging
Americans to 'Pay Attention to that man behind the
curtain,' before it is too late." (p. 798)

http://www.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/okla/thoreen24.htm

Thanks, Otto ...

http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/vllinks.htm

http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/

--- cathy ramirez <cathyramirez69 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Vineland the good
> Review of Vineland, by Thomas Pynchon
> Christina Koning
> February 1, 1990
> The Guardian

[...]
 
> Totalizing Postmodernism: Master-narratives in
> Pynchon's Vineland
> By Bruce A. Sullivan
>
http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/papers_sullivan.html

And jump to no conclusions yr sources here aren't
necessarily jumping to themsleves ...

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