VLVL (6) Sasha

[Mike Weaver]

I wrote along with other historical stuff
>Initially the war was seen as a fight between capitalists.
  Rob wrote:
>No offence to you, but this isn't in the text. Sasha's change of heart seems
>   to have begun right from when the war broke out.
Then quotes:
>Lot of us thought it was some last desperate
>       capitalist maneuver, a way to get the Nation mobilized under
>       a leader, no different than Hitler or Stalin. But at the same
>       time so many of us loved FDR.

Okay, I left out the other factor mentioned in the text - the love for FDR 
- but what I wrote was a historical confirmation of the passage you quote. 
Since Sasha is clearly a Trotskyist she's not going to be anti-war through 
loyalty to the Soviets. We are discussing passages set in historical 
moments. Looking beyond the text is necessary unless you are complaining 
that P should have written in the whole history of the period.

>And what *is* in the text is the comparison and connection which Sasha
>   herself makes between her own "helpless turn towards images of 
> authority"... and Frenesi's similar "fetish", or, indeed,  her tragic 
> flaw (83.20-34).

My take on that passage is in the notes I posted.
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0309&msg=85853&sort=date

-------------- next part --------------

---
Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.515 / Virus Database: 313 - Release Date: 01/09/03