CoL49 (5) Round The Bend

[Robin Landseadel]

On Jun 27, 2009, at 8:18 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Robin
> Landseadel<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> If only she'd looked.
>
> If there's one key phrase here ,,,
>
> .... might also explain why Oedipa having been a Young Republican is
> by no means a "throwaway joke" ...
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=KccYqeAtuoIC&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85 (n. 21)
>
> ... though that's not to imply any particular party politics
> sympathies on anyone's part here, either, so ....

I think it's well worth noting that TRP's father was a big wheel in  
local Republican politics. If CoL49 is as autobiographical as it think  
it [and Vineland and the upcoming Inherent Vice] is, then Odipa's  
journey away from the father figures of her life parallels Pynchon's  
motion from a life with a not-so-young Republican for a father to a  
life underground.