Honest To Toby

[Otto]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Mackin" <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: Honest To Toby


> On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 11:58, Keith McMullen wrote:
> >  >>>Should we then read it as a pro-Reagan novel? Interesting thesis,
but
> > the evidence?<<<
> >
> > The thesis that Vineland is a pro-Reagan novel is as uninteresting as
> > caricaturing it as a left-wing novel.
>
> It would be metaphysically impossible to write a pro-Reagan novel. Even
> Ayn Rand would have been at a loss. (you might even say ESPECIALLY Ayn
> Rand)
>
> Anyone can write a left-wing (sic) novel. It's the most natural act in
> the world. That's why everybody does it.
>
> >
> > Robbing his writings of their looniness is criminal.
>
> Looniness is Pynchon's religion.

Maybe I don't get the right meaning of "Looniness" -- but my dictionaries
tell me that it means lunatic.

> It's his way of being postmodern.

I strongly doubt that.

> By the way, can one worship at the altar of postmodernity and Karl Marx
> at the same time? I rather think not.
>

One cannot worship at the altar of postmodernism because that would be a
contradiction in itself. Postmodernism is about breaking the altars, showing
that they rely on myths -- the left ones too!

Otto