More on the blurb brouhaha

[Ghetta Life]

Debates about how "lefty" Pynchon is are truly useless.  His novels are not 
political tracts, thank God.  If I were to guess, I'd say he's not a 
"conservative"  (He's obviously to smart for that).

Pynchon does toy with politcal messages, such as the tree telling Slothrup 
to take the carburator out of the next tractor he sees at a site of tree 
harvesting (very loose paraphrase).  And there are many other examples.  But 
they are always subsevient to the bigger concerns of his novels.

These debates usually emerge when someone on this list begins with "Pynchon 
is obviously saying..."  Thank God Pynchon is never obviously saying 
anything.

Ghetta

>From: "John Carvill" <JCarvill at algsoftware.com>
>
> > btw. is TPR still a lefty these days? is there much evidence for this 
>(apart from Vineland)?
>
>Heh heh. Well I've always felt there's a strong left-leaning political 
>current running through Pynchon's  work. Many here on this very list have 
>strongly disagreed. I'll leave it at that.
>

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