VL page 77 Sasha & Turn.2

[Otto]

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From: "Terrance" <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
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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.

Wow, where's the biography you've read that? What I've read in GR is a lot
of criticism on that Calvinist ethic:
Shit, Money and the Word.

> He just
> happens to be a conservative artist instead of a conservative investment
> banker.

I think this is the first time I'm reading that someone calls a
postmodernist writer a conservative artist.

Otto