VLVL Rex Snuvvle

[Terrance]

> > The fact that Rex owned a Porsche 911, named it "Bruno", and had sex with it,
> > is satirised even more than his sacrifice of it, which is sorta noble (231-2).
> 
> And, just like the privileged background of those Pisk twins, the fact that
> Rex does own a Porsche 911 and has a Las Nalgas Beach apartment (207) makes
> him pretty well off also.

Yeah, but the class angle is only part of it. The common agent here is
communism. 

Rex is a guilty white boy being played by the Black Party. Nothing noble
about giving his car away. Although Frenesi thinks it was a good thing,
it's stupid and foolish. Rex is trying to become a  communist or some
sort. So are the Pisks. But Rex isn't in North Vietnam. And the Pisks
aren't in Cuba. 

Communism was an agent of polarization in the working class in the USA. 
That's what Pynchon is talking about here, not witch hunts or party
politics. 
It's not that Pynchon is not concerned about the witch hunts or the
black listings and the FBI and CIA and Police and FEMA and the rest ... 
not to mention the madmen like Brock Vond and Hector Zuniga running
around with guns and power mixing their personal  lives up with the
government's business, but VL is only half re-heated history and movie
of the week.