Pynchon's anti-Americanism

[Paul Mackin]

On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 04:02, Otto wrote:

(quoting someone who sounds like Lynn Chaney after studying modern
american lit under Doug Millison)

>  Indeed, Senator Miller, had he had known
> about it, would have been outraged back then to hear a popular professor
> promote the idea that agreed with Pynchon's claim that, rather than being
> liberators of the Nazi concentration camps, the U.S. was a major player in
> the regime's inception. The novel, after a string of descriptions of
> sado-masochistic acts involving children (connected, of course, with the
> West/U.S./Nazi regime), ends with the indictment of the latest in what
> Pynchon presents as a long line of fascist presidents, Richard Nixon.
> Pynchon's book is nothing but a long, hallucinatory propaganda piece that in
> a disjointed post-modernist style distorts history in order to equate Nazism
> with Western civilization.
> (...)

I have no doubt that there actually were sprinkled about college
campuses more than one Popular Professor fitting this description . . . 

Poor Pynchon.