VLVL The Sisterhood: evil capitalist fascists?

[Otto]

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From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 7:34 PM
Subject: Re: VLVL The Sisterhood: evil capitalist fascists?


>     By the 1960s the kunoichi, looking for some cash flow
>     themselves, had begun to edge into the self-improvement
>     business (107.22-3)
>
> I don't believe that Pynchon is
> characterising this aspect of the organisation or DL as "fascist",
> however, as some here seem to want to have it.

Where did you get that impression from? I haven't read a single post
asserting this.

> It strikes me as a fairly gentle
> satire on the irony of a New Age-style resort preaching selflessness but
> being in it for the cash.
>

I absolutely agree. It's the implicit contradiction of these New Age
institutes & ashrams.

Otto