VLVL 4: War, politics and love
Michael
malliquid at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 29 23:36:10 CDT 2003
Isn't the extremely strange part of that whole particular episode, and prominent throughout the novel? Otherwise might we not find it banal to suggest Moonpie was a neocon who voted for Dubya in '73 and delt with it vicariously? m
pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:RJ:
> The Vietnam War is quite prominent throughout the
novel
It would be extremely strange to find it otherwise,
given the prominence of that particular episode of the
ongoing War That Never Ends in the lives of so many
people in the '60s and ever since, as WWII did for the
previous generation. We're all still dealing with it
in one way or another. Perhaps it's interesting (or
banal; which do you want it to be?) to note how many
children of WWII Vets went on to fight or otherwise
serve in Vietnam, and thus suffered their own wounds
(on top of the hurts they received, vicariously, from
their parents who were trying to deal with the hurts
they carried from WWII into the '50s and '60s) -- from
GR to Vineland, one wounded generation after another.
(And no end in sight, as Bush the Butcher of Baghdad
tries to outdo his WWII War Hero Daddy Bush.)
I've helped bury too many people, just in the past
couple of weeks, who suffered in just this way in the
wake of WWII and the Vietnam War.
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