VLVL Rex Snuvvle

[jbor]

on 8/1/04 3:51 AM, Toby G Levy wrote:

> Snuvvle was a grad student who in the course of his Southeast Asian
> Studies discovered that the government had lied and was lying about the
> war in Vietnam. But since he is an academic, his research carries into
> more and more obscure details of the history of revolution in Vietnam
> until he focuses upon a Pynchonian creation named The Bolshevik Leninist
> Group of Vietnam, a group of Trotskyites trained in France and sent to
> Vietnam in 1953 and promptly disappeared.  Snuvvle adores this group with
> religious fervor, expressing hope for their resurrection like Christians
> awaiting the Second Coming.

The details might seem "obscure" to an American, but I can assure you that
they are pertinent to many many millions of South-East Asian people (just as
MLK's assassination was very pertinent to many millions of African-American
people in the US).

I'm actually wondering whether the "handful of exiles in Paris" that Rex is
in communication with might include Pol Pot. A lot of the details
("Southeast Asian", "Bolshevik Leninist", "trained in France", "sent to
Vietnam", "to the left of Ho Chi Minh", "exiles") seem to fit.

In any discussion of the US war in Vietnam I think that what happened in
Cambodia *after* the US supposedly pulled out of the region should be
examined closely.

best