VLVL the Movement WAS Re: Pynchon mention re rock, paper, scissors game

[Ghetta Life]

>From: Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
>
>
>pynchonoid wrote:
> > _Vineland_ is clearly conscious of the Movement as it
> > expressed itself at Berkeley and Columbia, and that's
> > enough, contrasted with the PR3 fiasco, to establish
> > the novel's basic story:  a corrupt government (from
> > First Criminal Nixon at the top to so-called "rogue"
> > elements like Brock Vond bottom feeding) plus the Tube
> > (like the government, captive to the desires of big
> > business) equals 1984 under Reagan-Bush.
>
>Your "Bad Government PLUS Bad TV"  formula reduces the novel to
>propaganda (in both the Roman Catholic and the Journalistic sense).

Terrance hits the fish in the barrel:
"Bad Government PLUS Bad TV"  formula = Propaganda.
Propaganda = Bad Fiction (no subtleties)

VL might not be Pynchon's best work, but he is never so simple as 
propaganda.  He loves Koans (which he makes a point of referencing in VL), 
and ALWAYS tries to make his novels reverberate as such.   Sometimes he 
succeeds.

http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVLPages/ZenPages/KoanStudy.html

Ghetta

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