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[David Morris]

On 4/6/07, Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Kindness has always been an extremely positive force for Pynchon, and one gets the feeling that the author puts more stock into small, local kindnesses than in over-arching and idealistic political projects. Kindness may not be as radical a force of political change as, say, fully fledged Anarchism, but it's something, and if universally practiced, the world would be an infinitely better place.

I think you are quite correct with this observation.  I don't think
Pynchon believes in any full-fledged political/social movement (sorry
Robin).  He understands the corrupting nature of power too clearly
("They" have an outpost in all our souls), and thus the inevitable
fallibility of all movements.  If he proposes Anarchy, I think he dose
so on a small scale, and most underground.

David Morris