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Definitely Herstory. Above all, it's clear, Vineland is a
feminist-political novel intent on recognizing the reality
of what binds culture together- that is, women with their 
ability to transcend arbitrary divisions of race, class and 
the politics of divisiveness, even when they stumble, or
fail, inorder to ensure our survival.

respectfully, and Happy New Year to all


In a message dated 12/30/03 12:59:58 PM, lycidas2 at earthlink.net writes:

<< Sounds like you are agreeing with RC. 



History is too innocent, to be left within the reach of anyone in Power,

—who need but touch her, and all her Credit is in the instant vanish'd,

as if it had never been. 


She needs rather to be tended lovingly and honorably by fabulists and

counterfeiters, Ballad-Mongers and Cranks of ev'ry Radius, Masters of

Disguise to provide her the Costume, Toilette, and Bearing, and Speech

nimble enough to keep her beyond the Desires, or even the Curiosity, of

Government...


Practitioners, to survive, must soon learn the arts of the quidnunc,

spy and Taproom Wit ... 


DL and Takeshi & Co. are a lot like RC. 


Of course, as we discovered in our reading of M&D, RC's ideas about

history are problematic. RC is not the author of M&D. How is Nabokov or

Roth for that matter related to Pynchon? 




Her story must "be tended lovingly and honorably by fabulists and

conterfeiters, Ballad-Mongers and Cranks of ev'ry Radius"?

 >>