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

[Michael Bailey]

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.

as we later hear Vibe doing on Pearl Street

> 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.

nicely put

> Also, the terms "Left" and
> "Right" do not help us understand this work. Waste of time.
>

except that Vibe is a classic rightie, and Webb a classic leftie
both take it too far, to the point that even their fellow classmembers
abandon them
Mercutio might call down a plague on both their houses,
Eigenvalue might detect "a plaque on both their teeth"



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