VLVL Rex Snuvvle

[Dave Monroe]

I do not necssarily disagree.  Interestingly, Richard
Rorty condemns Vineland (along with, among other
works, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash), as being
over(whelming)ly pessimistic in their portrayal of Us
vs. Them, but his sentiments seem much like those you
claim (and not necessarily wrongly) for Pynchon ...

Rorty, Richard.  Achieving Our Country: Leftist
   Thought in Twentieth-Century America.
   Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1998.

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/RORACH.html

http://www.semcoop.com/detail/0674003128

See pp. 4-7.  Vineland is mentioned on p. 6 ...

--- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> Pynchon is an unsympathetic historian of the New
> Left's departure from their initial populist faith
> in the need for individual participation in
> decision making processes ...

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