VLVL Rex Snuvvle

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on 14/2/04 3:24 AM, Terrance wrote:

>> I think that through his fiction Pynchon is constantly seeking
>> after or yearning for a better way to put the principles of tolerance and
>> community into practice.
> 
> I can't think of an example of this from VL. Can you? Where do we see
> tolerance and community in practice in VL?

The families and friendships, Zoyd's and Prairie's crew, RC and Moonpie, Van
Meter and his extended family, Sasha and Zoyd, 24 fps, Weed and the
students, Weed and his tribe of women and kids, Sylvester and Tweety,
Gilligan and the Skipper, the Smurfs, Lucy and Ethel, Star Trek.

The novel doesn't expose the failings of the Left simply to condemn
communism. If that was all he was trying to do then he should give up novel
writing.

best  




> We hear a lot of talk,
> ideological talk, idealistic and fanatical talk, but what we see is
> betrayal and deception and intolerance in action. It's a rather
> pessimistic view. There seems to be no middle ground between the turning
> extremes. P's characters in VL are still caught on the karmic wheel of
> GR, still being beaten by the karmic hammers. Communism is the agent of
> violence and repression in the post war labor red scare and the
> polarizing agent in the new left after 1965. I don't think we can read
> the end of the novel and argue that P is seeking or yearning for a
> better way or a way out of  karmic adjustments.
> 
> Maybe the only way out is Ralph Wayvone Jr.,  Kinda like what 80~N's
> father, the junk man told him, in the future they won't need any of us,
> robots will do all the work, but people will still need to laugh.