VL-are we ready for some sort of wrap-up?

[Robin Landseadel]

On Apr 22, 2009, at 3:09 PM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:

> I agree with what Joseph says about McConnell:  I don't think  
> Pynchon is saying the Movement was DOA, for the reasons Joseph  
> gives.   I also think McConnell's calling VL a fairy tale strays  
> away from the more apt Tubal comparisons.

By "The Movement"  Frank McConnell is pointing to activism in a post- 
tubal world—a world where the folks in the movement were expecting  
resolution to problems as quick and easy as an episode of Hawaii 5-0  
or the Brady Bunch. It think that's right, and I think Isaiah when he  
said that Zoyd & company underestimated the power of the tube. Pre  
"movement" action is also on display, and some of that was more  
successful and rational than "the Movement."

While fairy tale seems to drift away from tubal comparisons, the  
comparison points back both to the fairy-tale expectations the Tube  
brings on and also to a number of fairy tales the author throws in for  
good measure.