Pynchon mention re rock, paper, scissors game

[pynchonoid]

Glad to see some momentum developing here for the
notion I proposed a while back, that Pynchon's
portrayal of PR3 has little to do with satirizing the
60s Movement that fought against the War and for Civil
Rights -- instead, the wanna-be revolutionaries at PR3
fall victim to their own weaknesses and as a result of
the pressures brought to bear by the Nixonian
Reaction, through so-called "rogue" law enforcement
elements like Brock (his kind remain at work today
within the Department of Justice, of course, they
never did go away), plus deeper currents of cultural
conditioning  (the Tube, among others) that are
preparing them to be productive citizens in 1984 under
Reagan.

Meanwhile, that Pynchon mention:

[...] In Jeffrey Eugenides "The Virgin Suicides,"
Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow," and another
David Foster Wallace book "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll
Never Do Again," as well as books about the business
and tech worlds (including "Forbes Greatest Technology
Stories: Inspiring Tales of the Entrepreneurs and
Inventors Who Revolutionized Modern Business"), books
on self-help and spirituality, math and probability,
society and culture, religion, Japanese warfare,
Taoism, Japanese ethics, game theory, and sociology,
not to mention books specifically about Rock Paper
Scissors. [...]

from:
Roots run deep for old game
  History, literature rich with examples
  By EMILY NUNN
  CHICAGO TRIBUNE
 <http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/living/7737962.htm>

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