VLVL2 Vineland as "pro-Reagan"? WAS Honest To Toby

[Paul Mackin]

On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 12:46, pynchonoid wrote:
> --- umberto rossi <teacher at inwind.it> wrote:
> > Should we then read it as a pro-Reagan novel?
> 
> That seems to be what jbor and Terrance have been
> suggesting. Read back through the VLVL2 archives and
> you'll find that their critique of the counter-culture
> in Vineland merely amplifies and extends the critique
> of the counter-culture offered by Nixon/Reagan/Bush. 
> Chances are, however, they'll leap at the opportunity
> to explain it once again.
> 
> umberto:
> > Interesting thesis, but 
> > the evidence?
> 
> Pretty darn thin, convincing only to their fellow
> neocons.
> 
> 
Did anyone actually ever suggest that Pynchon's poking fun at the
counter-culture (and most everything else) makes his novel pro-Reagan?


Although Umberto seems to have used the term, "pro-Reagan novel,"
for me it has more distant echoes.

Something one might feed the horse if hay was in short supply.