IV Chapter 18 Thoughts

[alice wellintown]

>
>  Both A.P. and Puck have attached German symbols—is this pointing to the
> 1940's "Justifiable War"/"Last Good War?"
>
> So much of IV consists of an overlay of Noir conventions from the time of
> the "Last Good War."

Who can make sense of these alliances? Jews and Nazis. Black
Nationalists and Skinheads. Why do such alliances form? This is a
question raised in GR. We can not draw a line here and set WWII on one
side of it and post-WWII on the other side, call one good and the
other not-good even if we put "good" in quotes. Can we? This is a
Pynchon novel not a conventional Noir fiction. Larry still can't make
sense of it all. Neither can we.