VL page 77 Sasha & Turn.2

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> >
> > 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.

Do ya think that could be the inward-looking Irish Catholic half
talking? 

> 
> > 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.

Again. I don't think that the "biography" is claiming that P is a
Reagan-Bush supporter, but that he is conservative. Next time you're in
NYC I'll take you around to where me and Pynchon grew up. Townies are
conservative folk who have been living there for three-hundred-odd
years.