VLVL Rex Snuvvle

[Otto]

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From: "Terrance" <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 5:54 PM
Subject: Re: VLVL Rex Snuvvle
>
> >
> > 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.
>
> McCarthian judgement? I give up.
>

That's what you've said:
>
> >Again, communism is the agent of
> >polarization and violence.
>

I'm far from defending communism, as Rob has pointed out there are clear
indications that P. is fully aware of the non-democratic situation for
example in Uncle Ho's North Vietnam. And during the Chicago-events the New
Left in 1968 critisized the Warszaw Pact for invading the CSSR and
destroying the Prague Spring.

But given the fact that North Vietnam was carpet-bombed at that time I don't
think that the assertion that (only) communism was the agent of p. & v.
doesn't hold water. I do agree more to the point of view that is expressed
in the "Slow Learner"-Intro where there's no difference being made between
Eastern and Western leaders.

Back to the text: Rex doesn't get the gun from the Brothers but from Brock
Vond via Frenesi. Vond knows that he needs a fanatic to get his plans worked
out.

Otto