re VLVL Pynchon's eye for detail

[Terrance]

It's odd that readers continue to direct our attention to the obscure
allusion to Rex84 as the example in the text that proves that Pynchon
set out to criticize reagan-bush policies domestic and foreign. the
critique of reagan-bush policy (i.e. central american policy and
domestic war on drugs policy) is so very obvious that the allusion to
the "conspiracy" theorist's darling (that is, rex84) is rather beside
the point. pynchon has an eye for the ny times. the rex 84 story, like
so much of what ends up in pynchon novels, was printed in the ny times. 

again, VL doesn't set out to confirm the left's views of reagan-bush or
preach to the prairie, but to chastise the left for their betrayals and
their turns.