VLVL "the Movement"

[Terrance]

Keith McMullen wrote:
> 
>  >>>There seems to be in this thread a view of TP as monolithic, as if
> he were incapable of change.<<<
> 
> Not only is there evidence of change -- the information we have,
> describing him at any given time, points to a man who does not fit
> neatly into the thread's poorly defined categories.

Cat a gorys dog a gorys. Oedipa Mass is still a conservative.  If P, as
Paul speculates, was bitten by love bug in the 60s, how come it doesn't
show up in GR? 
P's remains quite skeptical of the Left and the New Left, of
revolutionaries, of anarchists, of big changes, of big anythings.   He
hopes for, he waits for, the conservative american people to come to
their senses.  He never gives radical or revolutionary movements a
chance. They bicker themselves into fragments before they get to the
gig, the band breaks up, the same old song keeps playing.  

> 
> In the space of approx. one decade he:
> 
> graduated from high school
> majored in engineering physics at Cornell
> joined the Navy
> received a degree in English from Cornell
> lived in Greenwich Village writing
> lived in Seattle as a Boeing tech writer
> published V.