re VLVL Pynchon's eye for detail

[R. Fiero]

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.

Please learn to think before firing off the standard 
boilerplate.  I missed Dave Monroe's earlier and rather 
complete post about the term REX 84 along with cites but my 
point is not as you've stated above.

My point is that much of what is sent around about REX 84 is 
urban legend and is taken as truth by the black helicopter 
crowd who also believe that these concentration camps will be 
staffed by the UN.
Now, Mr. Smarty, please explain how something on the order of 
alligators in the sewers gets into a work of modern fiction. 
Also, just what alleys was the author cruising when he happened 
upon this piece of news?