VL-IV morally equivical, duplicitous types

[kelber at mindspring.com]

It's hard not to think of all the real-life men who turned on former friends/fellow-travelers and suffered little for it:  George Orwell, Elia Kazan among them.

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>From: bandwraith at aol.com
>Sent: Jan 8, 2009 8:43 AM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: VL-IV morally equivical, duplicitous types
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>Laura writes:
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>But why are these morally equivocal, duplicitous types
>all female?  Or maybe I've just missed their male
>counterparts? Any suggestions, anyone?
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>I'm trying to think of all the major male characters who
>are not morally equivical, duplicitous types. The more
>I think, the shorter the list gets. In fact, it seems to
>be more a matter of degree.
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>Frenesi stands out as a particularly exasperating
>female character- by design I would argue- because
>she was in such an enviable position. By the time she
>disappears, only a few know what really happened, and
>just how feckless and treacherous she was, but Hector
>realizes her potential value in 1984. After her real past has
>been cleaned up and candy coated by the screenwriters,
>she's going to come out smelling like a rose. Who will be
>motivated enough, or left in any condition, to make the
>necessary historical "adjustments" and allow the truth
>to brought to light? And even then, once fame has set
>in, all that "dirt" can only serve to make her newly
>rehabilitated media persona more marketable. Pure gold.
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>Watch that girl, she's going places- just the type of
>story Americans love- pass the milk duds.
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