Multiple Meanings in Text (WAS VLVL PR3 and "the Movement")

[Terrance]

> 
> I am interested in some of the other ways listers are viewing _Vineland_.
> Certainly there are feminist readings that can bring to light some of our
> assessments of Prairie, DL, Frenesi, etc.  And like anything by Pynchon or
> regarding the Sixties, a psychological or political reading would also be
> welcome.
> 
> What else can we say this novel is "about"?

It's about Yurok Chidden & Society in Erikson's Vineland the Good. 

Or if you prefer the Classical reading, it's about Hebes, the goddess of
youth, daughter
of an incestuous marriage made possible because of patricide. Youth
(Frenesi) was raised amid bitter matrimonial struggles, witnessed her
father's infidelities and cruelty toward her mother (DL). Youth never
grew up, remaining instead a child-goddess. 

At last, she marries a flamboyant and unfaithful character (Brock/Ralph)
who had murdered a previous wife (JFK) and killed their six children
(Howie, Sledge, Mirage, Zippi Ditzah, Krishna). 

Hebes's grandparents were, like her parents, union brother and sister.
Her  father--Zeus (AFL-CIO) had poisoned his father, Cronos (Communism),
who had, in his day, castrated his own father, Uranus (Marxism).