VLVL: chapt 7, p. 92 real and fake

[Terrance]

Michael Joseph wrote:
> 
> Paul, another exciting inroad into the text. Do you see any resonance of
> Augustine's City on the Hill in the hillside description beginning this
> chapter, and in this any suggestion of the Wayvones being a metonymy of
> idealized America?  I can see this idea resonating with Otto's regarding
> the ironic identification of the good family and la cosa nostra: American
> "family values" are being equated with patriarchal control, and the City
> on the Hill becoming a mafia seizin or stronghold--which the text offers
> in several versions. [more responses interlined below]


I still can't see how these ideological reading can fit between the
covers of P's novel unless you tear out three fifths of the book.
Wayvone or his holding company are not on Brock's team.