VLVL What is Pynchon's attitude towards the "traveling Movement co-ordinators?"

[Toby G Levy]

Jbor,

You wrote: "you're insisting that we should disregard that paragraph?
Scribble it out? An overt reference to "the Movement" and how it
operated?!"

Gee, I thought I was just expressing an opinion!  

You wrote: "Speaking of Rex Snuvvle, would it be accurate to categorise
his political affiliation as "radical left"?"

Of course.  So what?  Snuvvle was a dope.  I unfortunately knew many
people like him in the late 60s, early 70s.  Academics who had no clue
about the real world. IMHO, Pynchon's idea in having Snuvvle promote Weed
Atman as the leader of PR3 is to express irony, since Atman is
a-political.  I don't think Pynchon is suggesting that the machinations
of the radical left resulted in any real world accomplishments.

You wrote: "in fact, their summation of Weed as "neither charismatic nor
even personable" is  contradicted later in the chapter; he certainly
exudes quite a bit of sexual charisma for the women, even 15 years on." 

This is more irony intended to show the close-minded denseness of the
movement people.

You wrote: "One cause which he does constantly endorse throughout his
fiction and non-fiction is the Civil Rights movement."

True.  But the "movement co-ordinators" in this paragraph are anti-war
movement people, not civl rights movement people.  

Toby

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