ATD SPOILER p. 95

[pynchonoid]

> 

pynchonoid:
> > If you'd like to
> > make some statement about why Reef's desire to
> blow
> > himself up in an apparent political assassination
> > attempt doesn't or can't or shouldn't evoke the
> > current crop of suicide bombers in Afghanistan and
> > Iraq, this could turn into an interesting
> discussion,
> > at least the potential for that remains, it's a
> topic
> > I think is worth talking about, I find it pretty
> > interesting that in 2006 Pynchon is presenting a
> > picture of American terrorists with dynamite.
> > 

Jasper
> Simply because I don't feel it's supported by the
> text.  The paragraph
> is about Reef's recklessness with dynamite and
> general
> self-destructiveness, not his "desire to blow
> himself up in an apparent
> political assassination attempt".

Yes, of course, as far as that goes.  The text also
appears in a book post September 11, 2001 in the USA,
after having been brought to publication by the author
in that same time frame, and I don't see how a reader
today can ignore a feeling of, bilocation, say, to
read about terrorists with dynamite being good guys
while in the world around us the text is Americans are
not and cannot be terrorists,  Americans do not and
cannot share the sort of shameful desires that Reef
expresses mingling the personal, sexual, and
political, that good Americans have nothing in common
with bomb-throwing terrorists.  That may not be
printed on Pynchon's text, but Pynchon's text is
certainly inscribed in this world and linked, through
its content, its words and the meanings they carry, to
this world, not a thing apart  to be regarded with
some sort of faux objectivity. IMHO, naturally, with
all due respect to conflicting opinions, and hoping
for reciprocity bin this regard.
> 
> 


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