VLVL Rex Snuvvle

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Sun Feb 15 16:19:15 CST 2004


> 
> > 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).


Exactly. Not sure why you are playing with Doug's deck of card here but
it's no use. 
Misread me if you want to. I'm moving on.



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