Pynchon's politics, as exhibited in Vineland

[Dave Monroe]

--- Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com> wrote:

> << There is a marvelously telling moment when
> Brock Vond's brainchild, his school for subversion
> in which lefties are re-educated and turned into
> tools of the state, is closed down because in 
> Reagan's America the young think like that to
> begin with, they don't need re-education." >>
> 
> Indeed, a classic quotation from a rare rave review
> of Vineland.

Indeed.  In fact, I'd say (though soemone had aleady
said this before me, just can't recall who, though I;m
pretty sure I've posted it here, even), that, if
anyone was disappointed at the uncharacteristic lack
of the compellingly mysterious, enigmatic, what have
you, in VL, it's perhaps because the real life, and,
esp., political, clandestine had quite cynically risen
to the surface, hidden in plain sight to the point of
being no longer even all too hidden.  If there's one
thing to worry about with ATD, it's that, given recent
events, it'll be disappointingly straightforward ...
 
> With Vineland, he just made the politics explicit.

Or, at any rate, with Vineland, politics had become
explicit ...

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