Fw: RE: ATDTDA (33) - p. 921-2 - anarchism

[Michael Bailey]

Laura sez;

>  Ewball/Pynchon make the point that while anarchists may be opposed to all forms of >government, that doesn't mean that they're opposed to rules.

the anarchist golf course might be a gentle poking of fun at
the extension of no-rules beyond reason...
"mind if I don't play through" - the thought I read behind that is
how people's progress will ineluctably be at different rates and
in different directions...would Reef still say "this is kind of fun" if
the old brambled guttie had hit him?

What strikes me about this scene is the junction between
anarchists and arms-dealers.  Oust (good name for a revolutionist)
is a member of a family concern, we've been told.  Are his profits
going into the revolution - unlikely, since he isn't even Mexican -
or back into a bank account building arms plants, mansions in
Switzerland, funding Turkish railroad bonds?
Frank and Stray are also, on a given day, spending more time
gunrunning than reading Marx or setting up collectives.
Revolutionary theory is always inspiring, revolutionary praxis
always disgusting (there was a poster in the early 70s that
read something like that)