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               Jasper: You're telling me this isn't political spam?:

http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0703&msg=116189&sort=date

Yes, I'm telling you this isn't political spam, that these sorts 
of topics relate in a meaningful way to Pynchon's massive 
satires, that there are political objects and people to skewer 
in these books, that's the motor for much of what's going on 
in all of TRP's books, and that's how it's gonna come out. 
And Flagg is Gonzales, and the Governor of Jeshimon is W.
Bush and the author hates the both of 'em. And the bad guys 
are the Rockefellers and Walkers and Bushes and the new 
expanded world of banking and investments and the good 
guys are all anarchists.  Considering the point of my post="We 
Live in Parallel Times to the time that GR was issued", what 
could be more pertinant to AtD than parallel times? Charles 
Hollander made a great point a long time ago regarding 
some of the aims of Pynchon in GR:

               Pynchon’s writings have much in common with 
               Jonathan Swift’s and Dante Alighieri’s. Both these 
               men were involved in the politics of their day. 
               Dante was eventually banished from Florence, 
               having thrown his lot in with the losing political 
               gang, the White Guelphs. While in exile Dante 
               wrote his Divine Comedy, in which we are given 
               a structure leading us down to hell, up through 
               purgatory, and finally into heaven. Along the 
               way we meet mythical and historical figures who 
               allegorically stand for various religious doctrines 
               and dogmas.

               At the same time, many of these figures recognizably 
               mimic living figures of the day, the winners of the 
               political conflict. Under the camouflage of his most 
               lofty poetry, his most theological writings, Dante 
               was sticking it to many of his contemporaries. 
               Throughout the nine circles of Hell stand real 
               historical figures indicted as panderers and seducers, 
               evil counselors, falsifiers, traitors, murderers.

               Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels operates so well as a 
               comedy on the narrative level that it is frequently 
               thought of as children’s reading, though it obviously 
               works as a scathing commentary on the adult 
               human condition as well. Only when we immerse 
               ourselves in the documents of the day do we realize 
               that Swift was calling this particular public servant a 
               timid, petty, and frightened Lilliputian; that specific 
               member of Parliament an overbearing and gross 
               Brobdingnagian; this particular scholar a nitpicking 
               ninny of a pedant; and perhaps some very powerful 
               men of his day Yahoos.

               In historical perspective this name calling is humorous, 
               even cute, but in his day Gulliver’s Travels was 
               considered so venomous it could easily have gotten 
               Dean Swift clapped in the Tower of London. So grave 
               was this concern that his literary friends, with Pope 
               the leader, devised a means of publishing the book 
               anonymously, with no possible proof of authorship, 
               to avoid prosecution.

http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/inferno.htm

That's a valid mode in which to address the works of the world's 
greatest living satirist.