VLVL "betrayal, cowardice, destructiveness, and lying" (81)

[Otto]

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From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 2:28 PM
Subject: Re: VLVL "betrayal, cowardice, destructiveness, and lying" (81)
>
> Nothing to do with McCarthyism or anti-communist witchhunts of the 1950s.
>
> best
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Why do you leave out the third quote that shows the historical dimension
from the Pilgrim Fathers to the Bush-dynasty.

"You're up against the True Faith here, some heavy dudes, talking crusades,
retribution, closed ideological minds passing on  the Christian Capitalist
Faith intact, mentor to protégé, generation to generation, living inside
their power, convinced they're immune to all the history the rest of us have
to suffer." (232)

Are you avoiding specific pieces of the text? McCarthyism was based
precisely on this ideology.

Someone has complained about "Vineland" lacking major sentences. I consider
this quote as valuable as a general statement as some of the best stuff from
GR.

Otto