political polarity and pynchon

[prozak at anus.com]

well, it's hard to speak as a relative unknown, because most people 
look at what i'm doing and figure my intent is blind provocation or 
insanity.

but, it seems to me the political topics are the most germaine to 
pynchon as we're going to get outside of reworking the ideas and 
complexities of well-researched pynchon writings. pynchon, writing 
during viet nam about the possibility of end of the world (trés cold 
war, nu?), was writing in many ways about the political split of 
humanity that involved distant symbols and had little to do with the 
task at hand. i believe there was something in V about this, how the 
right is hard facts and the left is all emotion.

to me, what is interesting ("philosophically") here is that despite 
the vast amount of highly polarized political agreement, most of us 
are coming at it from a liberal perspective. avoid bombing children. 
ensure rights and fairness to all. do the right thing. these kinds of 
grand symbols not only motivate crowds, but also make great framing 
for a movie if one is eventually made on this topic. in such, they 
represent the "pornographies" and "ikons" and "Word"(s) of pynchon's 
writing, at least GR and M&D.

does anyone else see a need here to remove politics from the abstract 
and universal and return it to the literal, regardless of the grand 
abstractions, sentiments and phrases we can pronounce?

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