TOO reBEel or naught to reBEel ?

[Ray Easton]

Joseph Tracy wrote:
> Anyway to interpret Pynchon's critiques of misdirected rebellion as an 
> endorsement of conformity would, I think, be way off.
>   poester
>

Certainly Pynchon does not endorse conformity.  And equally certainly, 
he favors rebellion.  I entirely agree with what Paul has said about 
this.  And in particular I think the reference to Camus is quite apt 
(can't recall now who first introduced it).  And the reference you made 
to Buddhism also seems on the mark.

My question was meant to suggest that in several recent posts, the 
authors are mistakenly attributing to Pynchon their personal political 
"optimism" (for lack of a better word).   Several posters take the view 
-- "well, if they had done this, instead of that... if they had marched, 
instead of smoking dope... if they had studied lefty thought, instead of 
shoplifting..."   The post to which I am now responding seems at times 
to adopt such a view.  

I've no quarrel with such views -- I don't share them, but I have no 
desire to argue against them.  But I do not see such any such view 
present in Pynchon's writing.  On the contrary, such a view seems to me 
distinctly un-Pychonian.

Ray