Re: VL-IV (15): Ché For Children, pages 325/327

[Paul Mackin]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Easton" <kraimie at kraimie.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 7:16 AM
Subject: Re: VL-IV (15): Ché For Children, pages 325/327


> kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
>> The description of Che and her shoplifting/hooking exploits is kind of 
>> disturbing.  It's one of the many dead ends rebellion against THEM can 
>> take, if it isn't informed by a political perspective or a lefty 
>> tradition.
>>
>
>
> What in Vineland, or elsewhere in Pynchon's works for that matter, 
> suggests that there is any form of rebellion that is NOT a dead end?
>
> Ray
>
>
Might it be said that Pynchon is at his best dealing with lost causes?

Following Proust, the only true causes are the ones we have lost.

But rebel anyway!

P