Pynchon's politics, as exhibited in Vineland

[Humberto Torofuerte]

Fair enough...it could be that he sympathizes with the "lefties" only
because they represent the Preterite in this case.

ah, maybe; but what I like best about Vineland is that although yes it shows
> familiarity and affection for the lefties, it strives for a more mature
> perspective, translating political movements into emotional components and
> life consequences, and (for me, at least) suggesting that family and love
> trump politics; suggesting that the fact that political power comes out of
> the barrel of a gun taints political power irremediably and renders it not
> worth striving for...
> but that's almost a subsidiary point behind the evocation of the emotions
> and the working out of the different characters' karma, and the fulfillment
> of the ancient artistic charge: reaffirm stock values, urge the abandonment
> of the revenge ethic, and as Austin Powers said "Show me love!"
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