VLVL 3 Zoyd and Hector

[jbor]

on 12/8/03 2:47 AM, pynchonoid at pynchonoid at yahoo.com wrote:

> jbor offers, as in past group readings here, an
> ideologically-driven interpretation that follows the
> contours of the contemporary critique of 60's
> subculture (and its heirs) wielded by right-wing
> neo-cons in their ongoing Culture War.  To the degree
> that jbor's biased comments stimulate discussion,
> that's a good thing, but it's a wildly skewed view of
> Vineland that's sustainable only by cutting and
> pasting certain bits and pieces of the text

Pynchon's texts, once you engage with them, present a much more nuanced
perspective on "good" and "evil" than Doug would like. Which is pretty much
why he continually refuses to engage with them, and chooses to employ this
style of ad hominem and flamebait instead.

best

> to support
> a pre-determined argument and ignoring what
> contradicts this pre-scripted provocation, as we've
> seen in jbor's interpretations of this novel, GR, and
> the rest of Pynchon's work here in the past.