VLVL2 (15): The Deal

[Dave Monroe]

"'The deal we all thought we had, the deal we honored
all these years, is now all blown to shit because of
Mad Dog Vond, you listenin to me?"
   "'No, asshole, I'm tryin' to look at my daughters's
face.  That all right?'  She glared at him.  'If
you're so worried about the breakdown of your private
little-boys only arrangement, bring it up with Reagan
the next time you see him, he's the one took the money
away.'"
   "'Correct.  But did you know he took it away from
Brock too? Imagine how pissed off he must feel!  Yeah,
PREP, the camp, everythin, they did a study, found out
since about '81 kids were comin in all on their own
askin about careers, no need for no separate facility
anymore, so Brock's budget lines all went to the big
Intimus shredder in the sky, those ol' barracks are
fillin up now with Vietnamese, Salvadorans, all kinds
of refugees, hard to say how they even found the
place....'" (VL, Ch. 15, p. 347)


p. 347 "Mad Dog Vond"  Echoes Bogart as "Mad Dog Roy
Earle" in High Sierra.  But Vond really is crazy.

http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/chapter15.htm

High Sierra (1941)

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0033717/

Also cf. ...

Maurice "Mad Dog" Vachon

http://www.canoe.ca/SlamWrestlingVachon/home.html

http://www.garywill.com/wrestling/canada/vachon.htm


p. 347 "Since '81, kids were coming in all on their
own askin about careers..."  Too true, too sad, and it
undercuts the Happy Ending rather seriously (at least
as a pointer to the real world.)

http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/chapter15.htm

E.g., ...

http://www.crnc.org/

>From David Thoreen, "The President's Emergency War
Powers and the Erosion of Civil Liberties in Pynchon's
Vineland," Oklahoma City University Law Review, Vol.
24, No. 3 (Fall 1999), pp. 761-98 ...

     In Vineland, Brock Vond runs only one PREP camp,
and Pynchon locates that camp earlier in time; this is
the camp to which he takes Frenesi. By 1984, PREP has
been cut, a victim of budget restraints and changing
demographics; the increasingly conservative political
attitudes of college-age students make the camps
unnecessary.
     The physical infrastructure of the camp still
exists, of course, though it has been assigned a new
funding number and adapted to suit a new purpose.
Though Hector does not delve into that purpose, he
does tell Frenesi that "those ol' barracks are fillin
up now with Vietnamese, Salvadorans, all kinds of
refugees, hard to say how they even found the
place...." What appears inexplicable to Hector is
easily answered by the Rex-84 Explan--the refugees are
being helped to the camp by FEMA officials. And it is
not difficult to imagine that a few naturalized
American citizens might get mixed in with the
"undocumented Central American aliens," especially
when the internment of U.S. citizens fit the publicly
acknowledged agenda of FEMA officials; in 1983, Frank
Salcedo publicly declared that "at least 100,000 U.S.
citizens, from survivalists to tax protesters, were
serious threats to civil security. Salcedo saw FEMA's
new frontier in the ... prevention of dissident groups
from gaining access to U.S. opinion or a global
audience in times of crisis." The loaded gun that the
dissenting Justice Jackson spoke of in Korematsu v.
United States had been primed and handed to Ronald
Reagan, who in turn passed it on to FEMA. (pp. 792-3)

http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/okla/thoreen24.htm


"big Intimus shredder in the sky"

http://www.intimus.com/

Oliver North's infamous Intimus Model 007-S, a White
House favorite, can cross-cut sixty feet of paper a
minute into 7,500 pieces a sheet ....

http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byorg/abbey/ap/ap02/ap02-3/ap02-309.html


	
		
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