VLVL(7) one more thing

[jbor]

on 22/10/03 12:16 AM, Terrance wrote:

> He's a sensitive kid, like Prairie (a good match these kids make), I-24
> is real smart. 
> Notice that on Page 75 I-24 is the linguist on the band. That's a big
> plus in this Vineland world.
> 
> If there is any hope at all in this world of Vineland the Good it is to
> be found in Prairie and I-24. But the grown-ups keep fucking things up.

Yes, I agree. I think this is the book's message, or parable. The adults
spend so much time bickering and blaming one another and trying to rewrite
history, being dishonest or irresponsible and not giving the kids any
credit, that the great danger is that the next generation will be lost too.

I agree about 'TSI'. It's the text of Pynchon's that I'd recommend for
college and undergrad courses.

> The best introduction to VL is Pynchon's best and most important short
> story,  "The Secret Integration."
> 
> One more thing, in My Left Foot, Christy Brown says,
> "For Da,  life was a soft-shoe shuffle tap dancing in the dark looking
> down at my left foot like an amateur."

best