VLVL 4: War, politics and love

[jbor]

Welcome, Maria, and thanks for your comments. I wonder if on the cover shot
you mention it might be the view through a telescopic camera lens which has
been superimposed over the young woman's face?

best


on 31/8/03 9:06 AM, snarf at snarf at montevideo.com.uy wrote:

> I have found pretty interesting the suggestion that RC may be a Vietnam
> Veteran. I am from South America and the spanish translation of "bush vet" is
> "veterano de la jungla" (jungle veteran).
> I really appreciate your comments and the references you throw on snacks
> names, etc. because those references are impossible to gather for anybody that
> does not live in the United States.  I have been in the list for a month or so
> and I have re-read Vineland since then, enjoying (and understanding) it a
> whole lot more. It is quite difficult to follow the text references as the
> page numbers you give in your comments does not match the spanish translation
> and that makes me read it again and again. I enjoy your comments and I am
> wondering how would the list will get when it reaches the ninja thing or the
> thanatoids. I can't hardly wait.
> I remember when you were discussing how may Zoyd look like, if he is a big man
> or rather skinny. Unfortunately, my spanish edition of Vineland has a photo in
> the cover. It's a photograph of some members of a hippie commune from Oregon,
> taken by John Olson in 1969. It's pretty weird how book covers may induce you
> to stick an image to the characters, no matter how hard you try not to relate
> them, knowing perfectly well that it that the cover has nothing to do with the
> book itself. This particular photograph has an image superimposed. It's a
> telescopic sight of a gun. Its center is focused on the head of a blonde
> female hippie, as if somebody is about to shoot her. She is standing next to a
> bearded male. I regret to say, that I can't help those faces to be Zoyd's and
> Frenesi's for me.
> Well, thank you.
> María
>