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

[Ian Livingston]

I must reiterate something Robin said early in this thread:  "The key
with Pynchon is always &."  Yes, Dub figures in his aping
characterizations, yes, he is directly pointing to the politics of the
late 19th C and the cycling darkness of the betrayals of labor by
labor and the polemics of the era, and, yes, in all likelihood he
means all that and more....  I have only been reading Pynchon for 25
years, so I can't call myself more than a journeyman at
interpretation, but I do think the more I read, the more I come to
appreciate the vast depth and breadth of research and curiosity that
informs his work.  Sometimes I think I get lost in seeing the
particular allusions and fail to get the overarching sense of the
scene I am reading.  Then through retrospect and rereading, I begin to
discover more of the layers so artfully poised that they suggest
sustained cultural movement.  It is not so hard to link Jackson with
Bush....  Even -- alas! -- Lincoln with Bush.  Pynchon works hard at
dismantling oppositions and discovering what is shared and what can
never be.

On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Robin
Landseadel<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
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> On Aug 9, 2009, at 5:50 AM, Carvill John wrote:
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>> I don't blame you! But the fact that Bush was widely regarded as ape-like
>> really made the fact that that Governor section was about him even more
>> crashingly obvious.
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> Knowing about Alberto Gonzales' role in Gov. Bush's Texas seals the deal.
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