Take a load off Fanny, ain't you gonna miss your best friend now

[Terrance]

 She thus makes people confess as facts tendencies which, in view of the
**structure
> of the culture**, can be predicted, and the confession of which is
> profitable for anybody's inner peace. 

The structure of the culture. 

In the Slow Learner Introduction and,  in his more recent essay, The
Foreword to Orwell's _1984_, Pynchon hints that his thinking about what
divides America and keeps the majority of her citizens relatively poor
and powerless is not racial based discord, but Class. 

We should take a closer look at the Shape of Trasero County and the
Structure of the culture, at Brock's Marxist mini-state, at the
underground city where Frenesi works and lives with Flash and her new
family,  and compare these shapes and structures with Vineland, 
Thanatoid Village, all the area where Prairie and Zoyd live. Perhaps
Eliade will be useful. Erikson too. How are these world connected and
penetrated? 

In any event, isn't interesting that Eliot X's argument divides the
People. 
What a rock star. And he attacks the children of the surfing class, the
indigenous people of the area who have been pushed off their sandy dunes
and cliffs with a view of the great green giants, squeezed out by a
conservative polytechnic student body funded by real estate developers,
oil, hollywood cash. What a guy that Eliot X. 

Money Money Money Money

MONEY! 

Money Money Money Money 

MONEY! 

"As a matter of fact, Fanny was in an acute state of gloom when we
arrived. Some days before, on stepping out into her vegetable garden and
glancing over the scene, a hundred feet below, where the Klamath enters
the Pacific. she had seen a small whale enter the river, play about a
little, and disappear again. This shocked her deeply. Had not the
creator decreed that only salmon, sturgeon, and similar fish should
cross the fresh-water barrier? This breakdown of the barrier could only
mean that the world disk was slowly losing its horizontal position, that
salt water was entering the rive, and that a flood was approaching
comparable to the one which once before had destroyed mankind." 

Childhood & Society 

Chapter 10: The Yurok and Hupa of the Northern Coast

http://www4.hmc.edu:8001/humanities/indian/ca/ch10.htm