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.
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>Or maybe feminist activist.
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>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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