VLVL: Holding up a mirror...

[joeallonby]

on 9/27/03 12:11 PM, Terrance at lycidas2 at earthlink.net wrote:

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>> As for the hippies like Zoyd, are they to be included as Marcuse has it
>> in One-Dimensional Man among the inheritors of Marx's proletariat? If so
>> Vineland qualifies as a left-wing or revolutionary novel. It's not one
>> people of the Left are likely to be very enthusiastic about however.
> 
> 
> One reason why VL sucks is that there is no Rocket.
> 
> "Does not the threat of an Atomic catastrophe which could wipe out the
> human race also serve to protect the very forces which perpetuate the
> danger?" 
> 
> --Marcuse

Of course there is a rocket. There are a whole bunch of them in the control
of a mildly retarded actor.