FW: VLVL "happy ending"?

[Paul Mackin]

On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 16:27, Dave Monroe wrote:
> So we are in (tentative) agreement then ...
> 
> --- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> > 
> > As a reflection on U.S. history in the 20th Century
> > leading up to Reagan's re-election in 1984
> > _Vineland_ is indeed a scathing review of the
> > failures and hypocrisy of "the left" in America,
> > and Pynchon's satire is evident on every page of
> > the novel. That doesn't make it an endorsement
> > of "the right", however, far from it.


Except that scathing is too strong. Pynchon doesn't scathe. He might
probe. Or better still canoodle. It's a canoodling indictment of the
failures of . . . . whatever . . ..