ATDDTA (3): Control issues, Chums, They

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Monte Davis [mailto:monte.davis at verizon.net]
>
> > You're describing labor history as "incremental, non-dynamite
> > reformism."
>
> No, as the "namby-pamby" should have made pretty obvious, I was caricaturing
> a PoV from which everything *but* dynamite is a sell-out. That's not my own.
>
>
>

Nice concise reply (and coming from someone who recently spent 
about 1500 words "responding" to a labeling of a characterization 
I made about bankers as a caricature, that's a heartfelt compliment)

I don't think anybody's personal views are completely obvious here
on the List, though...but they can be on-topic if clarifying them
pertains to how one might apprehend the fiction...

from Webb's point of view, reformism is just more snouts at the trough; 
it's probably only slightly on-topic to say I think he's wrong, wrong, 
wrong about that!  maybe a little more so to say that Pynchon works
_with_ that kind of cynicism as subject matter and matrix for dark 
humor, but I don't think he is working _toward_ that viewpoint.