re VLVL Pynchon's eye for detail

[Otto]

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From: "Terrance" <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: re VLVL Pynchon's eye for detail
>
> >
> > Good point. Precisely what I've been saying from the beginning of the
> > Vineland-reading on. The Left blew it, but Pynchon's critique is from
> > within, so he's taking his share. But I see no way how they could have
> > succeeded against those "warriors of the true faith." Does Kerry have a
> > chance?
>
> Germany hates Bush. That's a good thing. But Bush hatred is no reason to
> vote for Kerry. In fact, the vote for Kerry is not a vote for the Left
> in America but a vote against the Left in America. I'm voting for Ralph
> again.
>
> Jane
>

You've called Kerry a political figure of the New Left:

"This erosion is  manifested in the retreat of the New
Left (i.e., political figures like Kerry) from candor, compassion,
and a concern for others in the direction of narcissistic self
absorption, pious sloganeering, hypocrisy, and greed."

Oh no, there's no hate, not in the news, not in the commentaries, not in the
speeches with my customers. He's just a politician running for his second
term as a president. In Germany's Eastern provinces they're throwing eggs on
Schröder: http://www.diehartz.de/

That wouldn't happen if George Bush came to Dresden or Leipzig, in Berlin
there maybe would be some demonstration.

We know that the difference between Republicans and Democrats isn't that big
but in terms of dealing with the world community we expect a more "sensible"
approach from Kerry. Just compare the two party conventions we've seen
recently, the relatively reasonable Democratic convention and the Republican
convention with all that hatred speech, those lies and distortions from
Cheney, Miller and Schwarzenegger repeatedly claiming that Kerry wants the
UN or Paris to decide about America's defense:

"Only in an election year ruled by fiction could a sissy who used Daddy's
connections to escape Vietnam turn an actual war hero into a girlie-man.
(...) The rest is the rewriting of history."
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/05/arts/05RICH.html

Normally I wouldn't plead for a "war hero" but someone who's been at war,
has "shed his own blood" maybe would have been a little more reluctant to
wage a war just because there's an election to win and nobody wants to
change the Commander during wartime.

So I urge everybody who may vote in the upcoming election to go to the polls
and try to convince his neighbours too.

Otto