not MD more shocking fraud

[cathy ramirez]

--- Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.

I've read it.  Thoreen's essay in the OCULR is one
chapter in a complete study of Pynchon's fiction from
V. to VL (his dissertation).  I've read it too. Worth
reading. It's a brilliant political reading of Pynchon
but it doesn't address what Rushdie and the others
corectly identify as the ambiguity of his texts. 

Reviewers and scholars complained that P seemed to
replace the THEM/THEY/Firm/Octopus/Etc. of GR with
Reagan and Bush and Brock in VL.  In doing so it,
seemed to some, Pynchon has reduced his paranoid
ambiguity to a bitter political history lesson about
the 1960s. 
But what brings Brock down (not the revolutionaries
who are THEIR S&M dance partners in the bind of Love &
Death) is Reagan. This is exactly what brings down the
FIRM/THEM/THEY/ETC. By some flip of the switch, some
ironic karma, they ELECT fall from their own weight.
Of course there are the preterit heroes living in the
subjunctive rubish tip spaces and alternative spaces
who put the lid on the bad guys. But the irony keeps
turning. Praire (as a character and as an allegorical
figure--that Praire or Vineland) yearns to be with
Brock. 
> 
> And jump to no conclusions yr sources here aren't
> necessarily jumping to themsleves ...


What conclusions? 

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