The Australian Review of AtD

[Otto]

"Pynchon may be America's Last Old Hippie. He is certainly strongly
opposed to "Republican Christers", to plutocrats, to capital, possibly
to the Capitol. Late in the novel, a child, grandson of a union man
and anarchist dynamiter, brings home from school the assignment "Write
an essay on What It Means To Be An American". He writes: "<i>It means
do what they tell you and take what they give you and don't go on
strike or their soldiers will shoot you down.</i>" (Pynchon's
italics.) It comes back with a big A+ on it."

2006/12/22, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com>:
> http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20952474-5003900,00.html
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