VLVL Count Drugula, or Mucho the Munificent

[Terrance]

jbor wrote:
> 
> >> -- but there has been a constant attempt to gloss over or evade the
> >> obvious
> >> criticisms of the 60s counterculture which the novel *also* presents.
> 
> Terrance:
> > Does the novel critique the 60s counterculture? Why would Pynchon
> > bother?
> 
> Why not? Your denial is somewhat undermined by the subsequent post where you
> cite many of the criticisms which are present in the novel: the way "the
> Movement" was hijacked by selfish, violent egotists like the Pisks; the way
> the anti-war and civil rights causes were completely forgotten by '68-9; the
> way drugs, sex and rock'n'roll devolved into base mediums of exchange rather
> than the symbols of rebellion they started off as.

I merely asked a question.