VL-IV p30, 31, 32, 47

[Michael Bailey]

Robin Landseadel wrote:

>
>  Or is AtD the obsessive-compulsive footnote to Vineland?
>

now that would be funny!
The thing about the bombings in AtD that stays with me is they are
portrayed as existential experiences (am I using "existential"
correctly?) that don't really have any impact on the course of events
in the world or even in the plot.


>  The part that gets me is where these arrows point: "For DeMille" points to
> William Pynchon and fur-trading in pre-colonial Springfield, Massachusetts.
> And that points to heresy.  "Marseillaise" (and note that's a pun in French)
> points to "real revolution" but not the one Hector's talkin' about.
>

was it here that somebody quoted Ho Chi Minh as saying it's too soon
to tell if the French Revolution would have any lasting effect?