VLVL "happy ending"?

[pynchonoid]

--- Keith McMullen <keithsz at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> He also obviously roots against "liberal"
> politics when it just 
> as effortlessly slides into buffoonery. 

Agreed, except I don't think the 60s left radicalism
Pynchon sometimes spoofs in Vineland is "liberal"
politics. 

>To
> acknowledge such references 
> in Vineland does not make one a neo-conservative,
> nor a frivolous 
> reader.

Agreed, even if that's not at all what I said.  But,
to argue that Pynchon in Vineland is attacking the 60s
student radicals while upholding and defending the
Reagan-Bush worldview, as some have done in this
forum, is stupid, if not intentionally provocative.
Pynchon is demonstrably anti-fascist throughout his
works, and in Vineland particularly the question he
poses, there at the novel's end, is, roughly
paraphrased, under Reagan-Bush are we in the
prefascist twilight or are we already in the fascist
darkness? Not a very happy choice -- but he doesn't
make his characters despair  or commit suicide;
instead he shows a wounded, fragmented, extended
family managing to forgive each other, reconcie, come
back together to comfort each other while they argue
the point and endure the humiliations of the
Reagan-Bush regime.  That's about as close to happy as
you can get in 1984, imo.




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