COL49 - Chap 1: Oedipa says no to drugs

[Rob Jackson]

On 06/05/2009, at 1:29 AM, pynchon-l-digest wrote:

> A Goldwater sweatshirt will surface later in the text... Nevertheless,
> "Sick Dick" refers very possibly to Nixon too.

Don't forget that Tricky Dicky figures in the last section of GR  
driving a 'black managerial Volkswagen' and that Oedipa goes 'hunting  
for Volkswagens' on the freeway later on in Lot49 after her run-in  
with Winthrop Tremaine in the army surplus store.

Volkswagens in Pynchon seem to be synecdoches for Nazi Germany.

best regards