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[Robert Mahnke]

I take Vineland as being much more about what America's children did
to themselves in the 60's, 70's and 80's, than about what was done to
them by forces of opression.  The reader buys into the idealization of
Frenesi, and then sees what Frenesi did.  It's much easier to say that
it was Them, not us, but isn't that the point?

On 7/27/09, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> The CIA's actions against Americans who live, work & breath inside America
> is the rug that ties CoL49, Vineland and Inherent Vice together:
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>        . . .What is interesting is to have before us, at the end of the
>        Greed Decade, that rarest of birds: a major political novel about
>        what America has been doing to itself, to its children, all these
>        many years. . .
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> http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-vineland.html
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