Misc. on AtD, Pynchon's oeuvre, etc.

[Michael Bailey]

>  But the Chums adopting Pugnax, as later they adopted
>  Chick Counterfly and perhaps Prance...
>  perhaps does have some significance (he said boldly)
>

and perhaps that is what you were driving at, Mark:
the Beltway insiders have affinity groups and interests
(financial and intellectual) vastly other than the
populace of which they are the so-called leaders?

does Pugnax hopping aboard with the Chums figure
(not symbolize (-; - I just don't feel symbolic today))
the militant attention of the populace -
a force that governments either direct or are toppled by?