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

[barbara100 at jps.net]

As a writer, don't you just love it when you choose a word that has a double meaning or alludes to something significant--and you get all giddy and wiggle a little in your seat, maybe laugh outloud, wondering if your audience will "get it"? I love when that happens.... 

> --- Malign :
> > By the way, [INSERT NAME OF WHATEVER IT IS YOU JUST
> MENTIONED]  is a bag of wind.
> 
> It takes one to know one, they say.
> 
> When Pynchon chooses "homeland" how can you say with
> certainty that he doesn't mean the word in its
> best-known sense these days, the current US homeland
> security obsession, and instead intends it to mean
> Nazi Germany or another such use of "homeland"?
> 
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