Weapon-mention as political statement?

[Robin Landseadel]

Some stuff in Vineland seems to be thrown just to be funny.

I'd say the big joke, and a thread that pays off in seeing echos of  
Vineland in Against the Day, is karma, a rilly big theme in Pynchon as  
the Dude would tell you.

I can see "I'm just a floozie with an Uzi, just a girlie with a gun"  
being the bastid offspring of "Yibble, Yibble."

Would I be stating the obvious in pointing to the Monty Python/SNL/ 
Firesign Theater/Bonzo Dog Band echos in the "sound" of Vineland's  
jokes? And that sometimes classic stoner humor of the 60's/70's is  
purely onomatopoeic?

There's probably a political statement in there somewhere, give me a  
chance to look that one up in the Deleuze and Guittari fakebook, maybe  
I'll pick up a copy of Anti-Oedipus this weekend.

On Dec 11, 2008, at 4:56 AM, Michael Bailey wrote:

> Kai Frederik Lorentzen wrote:
>>
>> So now I ask you, Michael:  Do you really think that Vineland's  
>> mentioning
>> of the Uzi
>> is an anti-Muslim statement?
>>
>> Personally I do not think so.
>>
>
> no, certainly not.  In fact, I had forgotten the context and just
> remembered the yibble. . .
>
> "He who laughs has not yet been told the terrible truth" - Kafka by
> way of Salinger