VLVL Rex Snuvvle

[jbor]

on 15/2/04 12:39 PM, Terrance wrote:

> Moreover, Rex perceives the revolution in religious terms. He tells
> Weed, 
> 
> "You're up against the True Faith here, some heavy dudes, talking
> crusades, retribution, closed ideological minds passing on the Christian
> Capitalist Faith intact, mentor to protégé, generation to generation,
> living inside their power, convinced they're immune to all the history
> the rest of us have to suffer. They are bad, bad's they come, but that
> still doesn't make us good, not 100%, Weed."

p. 232. Actually, Rex perceives the conservative Establishment as followers
of a "True Faith", intolerant, brutal, vengeful, "bad as they come" and with
"closed ideological minds"; and he makes the connection between Christianity
and Capitalism (always a bad combo in Pynchon's texts).

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