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> > Tom Pynchon is a conservative.
> >
> 
> Of course, the conservatives call marijuana a "useful substance" (SL Intro
> p. 8). Therefore they're convinced that George Washington grew hemp for
> smoking it.
> 
> And Dubya is a communist.

Maybe were not talking about the same thing, Otto. That's the problem
with these crazy  political labels. 



He is a Yankee, a New Englander--wear it out, make it do, or do without.
He needs to follow the Calvinist work ethic in order not to feel guilt
about his life.  He has to measure up to the Yankee ideal. It's all
Newport, Rhode Island, stuff, the old WASP combined with the
inward-looking Irish Catholic. He's a conservative old-fashioned
workaholic with good values, strict Anglo-Christian values. He just
happens to be a conservative artist instead of a conservative investment
banker.