VLVL Rex Snuvvle

Otto ottosell at yahoo.de
Fri Feb 13 09:55:53 CST 2004


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From: "pynchonoid" <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>
To: "Pynchon-L" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 4:42 AM
Subject: Re: VLVL Rex Snuvvle
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> T:
> >Again, communism is the agent of
> >polarization and violence.
>

Of course he's satirizing the Brothers too, why shouldn't he? Every "side"
gets what it deserves. The ironic pov is consistent throughout the novel.

But I don't see anything in the text that would justify your above
McCarthian judgement, anti-communism clearly isn't on Pynchon's agenda, but
anti-fascism well. We're not in the fifties but the sixties and eighties.

Polarization -- you don't need to polarize artificially in a country like
the US, just take a look at the statistics.
Violence -- the Afro-Americans were the subject of police brutality on a
daily scale and the Black Panthers merely a reaction to that.

Otto




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