VLVL2 (1) "More is Less"�

[pynchonoid]

I guess it does make more sense to some readers to
pluck Pynchon's phrase from its context, rewrite it
(change from "More is Less" to "Less is more") and
interpret it with a high-culture reference that, at
first glance, seems to fit Vineland's pop-culture
about as well as a square peg fits a round hole.  

Reading the phrase straight and taking advantage of
the _1984_ reference with which P begins the novel
seems more to the point. Certainly most Vineland
criticism -- not all of those scholars insane
"Kinbotes" I don't suppose -- see the _1984_
references as important in the novel.

The architectural reading is interesting in light of
Pynchon's later reference to Nazi architecture, and
his linking of the Reagan/Bush Administration to the
Nazis.   

At least one writer on architecture asks the question,
"Was Mies a Nazi?" --
<http://www.hughpearman.com/articles4/nazi_mies.html>

--- Malign:
> Kinbotean 

Speaking of imposing one's own story on the text, what
could be more "Kinbotean" than imposing on this
discussion, no matter how slim the pretext, Malign's's
obsessive need to insult his/her interlocutors? 






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