It's About AMERICA!!!!!!!

[pynchonoid]

pynchonoid:
> >>>Read Pynchon as you want, Keith.  But, he remains
> an
> American writer; I don't see how anybody can change
> that unless he chooses to become an "American
> expatriate writer".<<<
> 
--- s~Z <keithsz at concentric.net> wrote:
> I don't think his being an American has any bearing
> on the passage.

That was the statement at the end of my previous post
that you questioned.

pynchonoid:
> >>> "Homeland" brings all its meanings to the
> party.<<<

Keith:
> This I completely agree with. That's why I think the
> passage refers to a
> political dynamic and not to any specific historical
> event.


If "homeland" brings all its meanings with it  how can
post-911 homeland security not be among them.  I don't
see this need to put blinders on and refuse to
acknowledge what's right there in Pynchon's text, 
insisting that Pynchon intends only a generalized
meaning or other specific meanings (all of which are
there in the text, too, of course) of "homeland" and
intends that we actively suppress the reverberations
this word has in the US today.  Of course you're free
to read it as you wish, the more readings the merrier.




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