VLVL 4: War, politics and love

[gumbo at fuse.net]

> Well, if that's the consensus here, I'll stop working on it. Let me
> know.

It's not.

D.C.

 

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> From: Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
> Date: 2003/12/28 Sun PM 01:57:31 EST
> To: pynchonoid at pynchonoid.org
> CC: Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Subject: Re: VLVL 4: War, politics and love
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> > re RC:  Rural Northern California is rife with Vietnam
> > Vets, draft-dodgers, and deserters.  I know some of
> > them.  Some of the combat veterans (and I think jbor
> > may be correct to assume that a "bush vet" in this
> > context is a US combat grunt in Vietnam) came back so
> > shook up that they sought the peace and solitude of
> > the boonies (which we also call, here in California,
> > the "tules" -- say "toolies" and that might be another
> > note in T's tiresome "VL is about WORK"  refrain).
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> I guess the book is simply not good enough or interesting enough so
> folks prefer to argue about the Vietnam war and get dragged into
> Duggy's  ad hominem pit. 
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> OK, seeya
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