Pynchon's back catalogue

[Paul Mackin]

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From: "Robin Landseadel" <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: Pynchon's back catalogue


> On Jul 27, 2009, at 3:41 PM, Paul Mackin wrote:
>
>> I know, it happens everyday.
>
> Which begs the question: then why place so much buried history in  these 
> books? If the point is what folks are doing to themselves, why  bother 
> with all the dropped hints and historically reconfigured  trails, why 
> throw in so much otherwise concealed history of Black ops  in America? Why 
> drag in our governments dirt? It's not an accident  that Pynchon includes 
> that material in these books and there is an  easily recognizable pattern 
> if one is willing to look.
>
> I mean, who the hell did Zoyd bite? Mucho? Count Drugula, well okay— you 
> could talk long and hard about the toxic expansion of the drug  culture 
> into coke, but Zoyd? All he ever wanted to do was find his way  back to 
> the tonic, fer christ's sakes.
>
>
Please stop shouting.

P