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[Ghetta Life]

I like the first part of this description, and I think it rings true to 
Pynchon's concerns expressed in GR and elesewhere.  He laments a lost 
innocence and at the same time faces the fact that it cannot be regained.  
This could be called "conservative."  He wants to believe, but is afraid to 
do so.  He's a conflicted conservative.

Ghetta

>From: Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
>
>Confronted, on every corner of his own Long Island Gold Coast neighborhood, 
>  with the devouring, self-pleasuring, masturbatory, decadent and 
>hypocritical materialism that the stupendous and ruthless success of 
>capitalism fostered and enabled, the young disinherited but brilliant, 
>sensitive and shy catholic lad, Tom Pynchon,  sat  reading Fitzgerald,  and 
>a nostalgic yearning for some sort of ideal, some possibility, something 
>more, something else, something necessary, something traditional and 
>conservative that refuses to concede any absolute dominion to the merely 
>accidental triumphs of the day, was born. Tom Pynchon is a traditional 
>American author and he writes about The American Dream. The American Dream, 
>Tony Tanner says, is a function of deprivation.

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