Stone Junction Intro

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

::: Not exactly a brilliant novel, and so the intro somehow
sounds halbherzig. Most of it - "Tom, will you please think of that Dodge introduction you promised to write!" - one can file 
under Marriage & Business. But the first para(-graph, not -noia)
is really interesting, although it's far away from being convincing. You just have to switch from the micro- to the 
macro-level, from local bank-robbery to international conflicts,
to see that the argument --- outlaws do karmic adjustment as agents of the poor --- is not unproblematic. Left romanticism
also the assumption that populations are more clever than their
rulers. Analysis IS needed and nothing yet "clear enough", or? 
Yet I nevertheless love the intro's first sentence, and when I read it I have to agree with Naumann that Pynchon deserves to be honored as an American patriot::

IF WE ACCEPT THE NOTION THAT USING POWER AGAINST THE POWERLESS 
IS WRONG, A CLEAR ENOUGH SET OF COROLLARIES BEGINS TO EMERGE.    

Now piss that into the snow! 

KFL +