VLVL Rex Snuvvle

[jbor]

Terrance:

> Rex is obsessed with his research subject
> and comes to believe that the men and women of the BLGVN are a kind of
> romantic lost tribe with a failed cause.  His zealous desire to record
> their history is described in religious terms (bottom 207-208).

Hang on. Where does it say that it's his "zealous desire to record their
history"? Isn't the main point here that Rex's studies of south-east Asian
history and the failure of the Fourth International have led him to
understand the "truth" about the US war in Vietnam (207.19-23)? And what's
described in religious terms is Rex's hope that a movement like BLGVN can
again "find residence in this mortal world" (207-8). Isn't this (the
possibility of setting up a Trotskyist utopia) what he preaches,
unsuccessfully, to Weed?

> Fear of
> reprisal doesn't prevent this scribe from telling Weed to preach the
> good word to the Steering Committee of the newly formed ADHOC. Weed
> doesn't take up the cause and Rex is frustrated. The daisy chain turns
> and turns. His quoting Talleyrand has been discussed.

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