VLVL 4: War, politics and love

[Terrance]

pynchonoid wrote:







> 
> 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).

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

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. 

OK, seeya