Pynchon as propaganda

[Terrance]

"P. Chevalier" wrote:
> 
> I guess it is slightly exaggerated to reduce "V." to that. What I say is
> that it is quite possible, and even conceptually productive, to read "V."
> trough that interpretative prism, eventhough many other approaches are
> equally possible; this reading would be more than a pure exercise of
> hybridation. The point is that some important themes running through the
> novel were thematised in Sartre's essays.
> And I'm sure no quotation is innocent when coming from Pynchon, even when
> the quotation is satyrical or ironic. The "Italian Fake Book" joke in
> "Vineland" wasn't innocent either; a Deleuzian reading of Mason and Dixon
> or Gravity's Rainbow can also make sense.

Of course, but what important themes are you discussing? Nothingness?