Is Brock Vond a NAZI?

[Richard Fiero]

Terrance quoting _Negative Liabilities_ wrote:
>pynchon uses the mutual sexual obsession between Brock Vond 
>and Frenesi Gates as an emblem for a startling suggestion: 
>that the struggles of the 1960s were really a form of foreplay 
>between the political Left and the political Right and that 
>the conservative repressiveness of the Nixon and Reagan years 
>was, in fact, the natural--even the desired--result of the 
>radical expressiveness of the 1960s.
>  . . .

Let's not try to do what some academics have done to Tom 
Stoppard's play "Arcadia" with a linear decoding.
1. "Sexual obsession?" Show me.
2. "Struggles of the sixties?" How does Patell suppose those 
struggles are any different from day-to-day struggles?
3. "Conservative repression of the Nixon and Reagan years?" Is 
this phrase code for illegal conduct?
4. "Desired result" and "radical expressiveness of the 1960s." 
Patell must be dreaming. Surely these are nonsense or 
intentional misstatements.

The same kinds of problems occur with the earlier Brownlie 
section where a supposition is based upon statements made by 
third party Hollander and fourth party Parenti. We knew a lot 
less in 1977 at the time of the Brownlie book but really, the 
argument fails if the accidents were accidents, if Parenti got 
the agency's initials wrong and so on. What exactly could the 
motive have been for picking one agency when there is a zoo of 
three-letter agencies?

Thanks to Terrance for introducing this stuff. My only problem 
is the exploitation of paranoia in the Industry, oh, and the mention of race.