VLVL Rex Snuvvle

[jbor]

> 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. 

But Rex *is* going off to Paris to hook up with what's left of "the
Vietnamese section of the Fourth International" (229), and the Pisks are
headed for a "bomb-making commune in central Oregon (259).

I don't think you can dismiss the fact that there are subtleties connected
with the explicit references in the text to the Fourth International and
South-Eastern Asian history. It's not the simplistic anti-communist screed
you're trying to make it out to be.

And I don't agree that Rex is stupid and foolish for giving the Porsche
away. For starters, the BAAD boys are calling his bluff, both in terms of
his Communist beliefs and his loyalties to the Civil Rights/anti racism
cause. They're manipulating him and he's put into a no-win situation, but he
does hold true to what he believes in. And, in the long run it isn't such an
enormous sacrifice anyway because he's off to Paris to join the BLGVN.

best