VLVL (6) Pynchon's parables

[Mike Weaver]

Rob:
>Are you trying to say that the people involved in the events, Hub's and
>Sasha's "friends", and the people making up the stories -- "[e]veryone they
>knew" -- are two different sets of people?! Good luck!

Of course not - you were claiming everyone sold everyone out - the text 
says everyone was making up stories NOT everyone was selling out, so the 
everyone includes the sell outs but isn't all of them. It is your obsession 
with classing everyone as sell outs which is letting you miss the point of 
Sasha's comment (and bitterness) - that the whole thing is business as 
usual for Hollywood, even those who didn't sell out rewrites the past to 
enhance their role - presumably for ego reasons, e.g. turning a simple 
demurral into an heroic act of defiance for example - and don't go hunting 
the text for that, it's just a possible example.  Find a copy of The 
Radical Soap Opera (Penguin 1974) for a similar non fictional description 
of the events.

>I'd say it's pretty clearly an account of the "betrayal, destructiveness,
>cowardice, and lying" of people on "the left", *as well as* of the way they
>tried to cover up and rewrite their actions afterwards.

I agree except differing between those who did sell out and the rest. My 
criticism of your angle remains constant - your failure to differentiate 
between levels of human weakness, be perfect or be damned seems to be your 
attitude.

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