Vineland underrated

[Mike Weaver]

>At 06:47 PM 9/25/03 +0000, you wrote:
>The description above sound like a boring and simplistic morality tale to 
>me.  That is ain't the Pynchon I'm used to.  He's all about ambiguity and 
>paradox IMHO, but this ain't his best work, so...
>
>Ghetta

As I've already said (doubly unfortunately) the description is of one major 
thread in the tale. Boring no doubt,  if you've no faith in the possibility 
of left wing ways out of here.
The Pynchon I'm used to is about (wonderful prose, silly jokes, crazy 
situations... and) the dynamic tension (dialectic) between various opposing 
forces that are part of our human world. Ambiguity and paradox are, to me, 
a way of describing those dynamics in static and simplified terms.
That VL ain't his best work - sure thing, but still a book of much worth, 
in literary and political ways.