re & furthermore ... VLVL Pynchon's eye for detail

[Terrance]

the Thoreen book is an excellent read, but one must read p's novels
first. not always the practice round these parts where the google
machine now seems the only tool left in the box. 

PS the betrayal, we hope, hit it's high mark with john kerry. let us
pray that the old guard will pass the torch to a  new generation worthy
of the ideals outlined in sds's port huron statement, the document that
p never alludes to in vl ....   


Terrance wrote:
> 
> 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.