Pynchon blurb watch

[R. Fiero]

Malignd wrote:
>"It is a ripsnorting and honorable account of an
>outlaw tradition in American politics which too seldom
>gets past the bouncers at the gateways of our national
>narrative. "
>
>Whatever the fuck that means.

Terrance mentioned earlier that in addition to the Left/Right 
political spectrum there is another axis which is the 
Statist/Liberal axis and is orthogonal to Left/Right.  Perhaps 
they map a two dimensional space of four quadrants: 
Rightist-Statist, Leftist-Statist, Leftist-Liberal and 
Rightist-Liberal. The word Liberal here just means anarchic 
non-Statist.  I'm not claiming that Mr. Pynchon or VL is 
mappable but if one is looking for politics in VL one won't 
find much because the dynamics are on a different axis. The 
characters are apolitical for the most part although Rex is 
Leftist-Statist and Brock is Rightist-Statist.  Zoyd is 
Centrist-Liberal and not Leftist.  He is apolitical  as are the 
Pisks, Weed who is in perpetual disarray, and Frenesi who 
should know better.  Next we construct the Badass/Compliant 
axis for a 3-space.