[VLVL] The Sixties

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The Sixties
It's a well-known fact that the winners get to write the history books.  Over 
the last 25 years, the history of the sixties has been rewritten and 
distorted by a series of ever-more conservative politicians and TV anchormen.  (For 
that matter, the decade was grotesquely distorted by the media while it was 
happening!)  Worst of all, as time passes and fewer people actually remember the 
sixties, this distorted picture becomes more and more difficult to challenge.  
Vineland is Pynchon's attempt to take back his/our history; we (in the person 
of Thomas Pynchon) must define the sixties, not the fascists represented in 
the person of Brock Vond, the book's sadistic villain. Vineland is about the 
power that inheres in memory.
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