VLVL (6) Frenesi: Watergate

[jbor]

on 29/9/03 12:04 AM, Terrance wrote:

>> In this view of the events leading up to Watergate what Pynchon again seems
>> to draw our attention to is the double standard which condemns one set of
>> acts of snitching on criminals as "wrong" and which valorises another set of
>> the same acts as "right".
> 
> Not sure about that. Plenty of wrongs. Where are the rights? Who was
> saved? 
> 
>> 
>> What's the implied author's stance on Watergate, I wonder.
> 
> Negative! Why? Another Witch Hunt. Hey, he's a Pyncheon after all.

I suspect you might be right (though it's only a supposition).

Wonder what that "Clark Gable movie" is -- "[w]ild and rowdy"? (78.6)

Perhaps:

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0035356/

best
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0035356/