Pynchon's anti-Americanism

[pynchonoid]

Inexpensive salvo, esteemed colleague Paul. If I
taught American literature, I'd teach it the way I
taught journalism at San Francisco State -- help
students learn basic techniques that they can use to
do their own work,  the way I studied literature from
my professors: teach how to go about analyzing and
interpreting a text, then let students analyze and
interpret texts using those princples. I've never
encountered a professor who demands a particular
literary interpretation.

If you agree with Zell Miller and mean to imply that
I'm anti-American because I criticize the actions of
the US government from time to time, that's another
undignified slur.  I faced the draft during the
Vietnam War and spent 2 years in the US Army as a
result, drawing combat pay during a one-year tour of
duty along the DMZ in Korea, complete with occasional
cross-border shooting incidents; all the while
grateful I had been spared combat in Vietnam. I vote,
pay taxes, perform community service, and otherwise do
my part as a good citizen. It's folks like Zell Miller
and President Bush and the rest of that murderous crew
who betray the US Constitution by questioning the
patriotism of people who don't automatically go along
with their war-mongering and criminal wars, and by
seeking to limit free speech, right of assembly,  and
other elements of the Bill of Rights, as we saw in NYC
during the RNC (, yes, Kerry and the centrist
Democrats have their shortcomings, too, no doubt) -
that's what's un-American these days. 

--- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> (quoting someone who sounds like Lynn Chaney after
> studying modern
> american lit under Doug Millison)
> 

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