SLSL, 'UtR' Who won?

[Dave Monroe]

Some excellent points here ...

--- Paul Nightingale <isread at btopenworld.com> wrote:
> Interesting that this story has a historical
> setting. All stories have a historical setting, of
> course, but this announces itself as History....

Must ... reopen ... Slow Learner ...
 
> In the late-50s, conflict between rival European
> Powers was already a thing of the past; in the
> Introduction to SL Pynchon refers to the arms' race
> that had been going on since the end of WW2 (and
> which, in the early/mid-80s, was enjoying a new
> lease of life, so to speak)....

Or, rather, a new lease on death ...

> Pynchon doesn't refer to the Suez Crisis in the
> Introduction, although that conflict (1956)
> confirmed the new balance of power ....

But here in particular  ...

> Something else the Introduction indicates is that we
> know the past through writing .... the way
> he has his characters speak is quite authentic, if
> you consider his source, or raw materials, to be
> writing rather than real life.

Consider here as well movies ...

> ... Pynchon is starting to deal with history as
> writing, the theme that will be so important in both
> GR and M&D.

And TCOl49 and Vineland and ...


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