VLVL The ending

[jbor]

>>> Maybe we do, but right here we've got Pynchon's Vineland and
>>> we don't even open it up and read what's in it. It's not a sympathetic
>>> portrayal of Lefty-America at all. It's a very harsh satire.

At the close of the novel, while these generations of hopelessly ineffectual
political radicals are busy with their picnic, Reagan is about to be elected
for another term. It's a scathing indictment.

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