The Fall of the House of Labor AtD.93 Republicans?

[Robin Landseadel]

On Aug 8, 2009, at 6:50 AM, alice wellintown wrote:

> This is not a condemnation of Bush. Pynchon is, as is his wont, taking
> pages straight from history books and putting them in the mouths of
> characters. Webb is giving a long talk about the problems as he sees
> them through his paranoid and gnostic glass darkley. The Republicans
> mentioned in the passage are not in Washington but in the State
> Capital. The paranois of the gnostic-Union zealots like Webb is the
> target of the satire in the passage. There is not even an oblique jab
> at W. Why bother punching shit in the face. Also, the terms "Left" and
> "Right" do not help us understand this work. Waste of time.

`"Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man."

Don't get me wrong. You're doing yeoman service in providing the  
historical citations and background in this passage. But there is so  
much in Against the Day that simultaneously overlays the present on  
the past, so much that deals with the rise of corporate empire,  
Standard Oil and suchlike—something the Bush Crime Family had a big  
hand in, along with I.G. Farben. The key with Pynchon is always &, not  
either/or. Much as with Inherent Vice, where much of that book  
constitutes commentary on "Beach Reads" and genre fiction, Against the  
Day is also commentary on the culture of the USA during the  
administration of George W. Bush.

Just remember this: quaternions are the computational backbone of  
Computer Animation.