VL-IV 1: L'amour est un oiseau rebelle [plain text]

[Robin Landseadel]

I can't claim "detailed insights" but I can recommend this:

	Raptor, Rapist, Rapture:
	The Dark Joys of Social Control in
	Thomas Pynchon's Vineland

(Written by Bill Not Bored and originally published in the May 1990  
issue of Art Paper. Substantially revised September 2002.)

http://www.notbored.org/vineland.html

. . . a-a-and there's passages near the end of Against the Day of Kit  
dive-bombing, airplane heading straight down, like a raptor and Mr.  
Omniscient Narrator ties it all to Italy's Futurist movement. A really  
lucid moment in AtD.

A lot of what happens in Vineland seems to be coming directly out of  
Termite Terrace, there's a decidedly cartoonish rendering of  
characters. The previous tagging of Hector and Zoyd to Sylvester and  
Tweety Bird is echoed when Chip & Dale meet Cheech & Chong in "Blood &  
Vato," What happens in Vineland is mediated by or ruled over by The  
Tube. So we're gonna see a lot of sit-com set-ups and the all the  
walls of all the sets on all these shows will wobble slightly, has to  
to do with Unions or somethin',  just ask Hubble, just ask Jess . . .


On Dec 9, 2008, at 7:52 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> Perhaps, in the context of Robin's detailed insights into the  
> fascism theme of "Vineland", Hector can be seen
> as a 'friendly fascist" as one political thinker has characterized  
> Huey Long and Reagan's America....as well as a buffoon?
>
> There are keystone kop-like 'fascists'---if that means 'nice guy'  
> violaters of democratic rights....