ATDDTA (3): Control issues, Chums, They

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Can't say as I disagree with Webb. Can't say that the author does 
either. I'd consider the possibility that our beloved author might 
have some experience running contraband. I'd also consider the 
possibility that our beloved author might have some experience 
running with outlaws. Just a thought, mind you. . . .

Mike Bailey:
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.