TOO reBEel or naught to reBEel ?

[Robin Landseadel]

On Apr 10, 2009, at 10:08 AM, Paul Mackin wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robin Landseadel" <robinlandseadel at comcast.net 
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> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 12:26 PM
> Subject: Re: TOO reBEel or naught to reBEel ?
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>> The difference is that Vineland is a made for TV movie. Mind you,  
>> our rememberances are filtered through the expectations of made for  
>> TV movies. In Vineland, there is a happy ending. In the real word— 
>> not so much.
>
> The happy ending may be essential to the idea that the Traverses and  
> the Beckers can still be happy even though they are not winning the  
> class war.

I think it's also arising from the author having a deeper interest in  
and involvement with family. In the first three books there is  
movement away from the nest, in the latter three there is a drawing  
towards. Family becomes important from Vineland on. There is a hope,  
one might say even religious hope, in family, in the attachments that  
arise from familial love. There is also an increasing awareness of the  
law of karma in the later books, and those blue feathers on Desmond's  
muzzle signal that there will be justice in the end, keep the faith  
baby.

[written by someone who just became a Grandfather again, welcome to  
the world Liam McCabe.]