VLVL Rex Snuvvle

[Richard Fiero]

Malignd wrote:
>  . . .
>- Noam Chomsky>>
>
>Is this quote intended to rebuke Rob's point or
>support it?  Chomsky does parenthetically note that
>Pol Pot's crimes were "(horrendous)," giving them the
>same rhetorical (parenthetical) weight as US crimes
>"(mostly unstudied)."  But, that quibbling detail
>addressed, he's back on point.
>
>Has there ever been a writer or thinker more lacking
>in greyscale than this man?  He's like Ahab.

The Chomsky reference is really far afield from any reading of 
Vineland. Famous net loon James D. Donald built this spam and 
it has been beaten to death elsewhere.
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/9879/jamesd.html

http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1994/10/msg00085.html

http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/2003_archives/001756.html
I cannot at the moment find the really humorous thread although
http://www.t0.or.at/hakimbey/plw0895.htm
is close.

The Chomsky reference began with the following intentional 
misreading of the text:
jbor wrote
>Pynchon's allusion to the brutality of "Uncle Ho's" regime 
>(BLGVN "sent to Vietnam some 500 Trotskyist cadres, none of 
>whom, being to the left of Ho Chi Minh, were ever heard from 
>again" 207.27) is interesting enough in and of itself, of 
>course, but Rex Snuvvle, a student activist, being involved 
>with the remnants of a Southeast Asian Communist group who 
>were to the left of Ho Chi Minh in the late '60s cannot but 
>remind one of the Khmer Rouge and
>its supporters and advocates in the West.
>
>People like Chomsky, for instance, a notorious apologist for Pol Pot:

Along with the echo that followed, this is throwing shit on the 
fire until we notice that it stinks in here. When done well 
this can be quite humorous. Overdone is another matter.