Pynchon as propaganda

[s~Z]

>>>I agree, and would add that the narrative tone suggests a "would you
believe it" type posture, directed to a "false" future- which was really
the present of the Vietnam era- as if these types of coercions or psy-
ops or spirit-ops, or whatever, were a thing of the past, when in fact,
they continue to this day... really.<<<

Or, within the context of the section, it could be a "would you believe they
are talking about redemption and salvation on the verge of nuking hundreds
of thousands of innocent civilians." It really happened. It was quite
common. A few doomed Japanese knew her as some Western deity. The sun was in
the Lion of Judah.