Harvard Law Review cites Pynchon

Bekah bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net
Sun May 1 09:17:18 CDT 2005


At 11:38 AM -0400 4/30/05, Paul Mackin wrote:
>Zoyd's activism (such as it is) isn't confined to the sixties.
>
>The opening incident at the Log Jam is as gay activist as it gets.
>
>Or maybe feminist activist.
>
>I guess I was a mild form of activist in the sixties.
>
>Marched on the Pentagon and such things.



No,  I suppose that a certain amount of activisim could be around in 
any age.  But until the US pull-out in  1973  political activism was 
almost exclusively about the war because that issue was pretty 
all-consuming, over-riding, polarizing, etc.    But it's irrelevant 
anyway because VL takes place in  1984 (Reagan elected) and Zoyd is 
more like a left-over from the activist days.  Was he an activist in 
his younger years,  along with being a general rock and roll hippie, 
chasing  Frenesi around and becoming a daddy?   Don't know.

I think that the Harvard Law Review was off the mark in saying Zoyd 
was an activist.  That's all this is  about, anyway.  I'm not 
interested in revisiting Vineland.   I want something new from Mr. P.

Bek  :)
just finished Elizabeth Costello  by Coetzee



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