VLVL Rex Snuvvle

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Sat Jan 10 12:04:14 CST 2004


> >
> 
> So let's focus on the text.
> 
> I don't think that Rob's remark is a total (and intentional) misreading. The
> part I agree too is "Pynchon's allusion to the brutality of "Uncle Ho's"
> regime" -- when the student revolution was calling his name like
> a mantra on the streets.

Is that in the text? 
 
> To me the whole Weed Atman-episode seems to be a parable of how the radical
> left (or the ones who thought they were the radical left) admired the wrong
> people.

The 24fps crew are a collection of souls, a plurality. We can stratify
them into various classes and ideologies.  A stiff wind of resistance to
this has taken us further and further away from the text. 

We can stratify this crew by how they think about The State. 

Frenesi is a student of Hegel: 

http://www.fff.org/freedom/0800d.asp



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