IVIV IV & Playboy article

[Richard Fiero]

Robin Landseadel wrote:
>On Nov 1, 2009, at 9:44 AM, alice wellintown wrote:
>
>>Dump Humpty!
>>
>>The problem is that Robin's vocabulary is so political that he can
>>not imagine that words have other connotations.
>
>I'm going to talk about the political in Pynchon's writings, it's
>there, get over it.

P's politics are inseparable from his prose - the 
postmodernism of systems within systems, 
antisystems and boundary crossings. Pushing on 
the string of Raymond Chandler causes that string 
to collapse with each additional push. P's 
politics have been carefully avoided. If so 
afraid of the CIA one should run and hide, 
although it makes for a nice café society of conspiracy fans.
Marcel Cornis-Pope points in M&D to the following:
'Here in the Earth Concave, everyone is pointed 
at everyone else,- ev'rybody's axes converge,- 
forc'd at least thus to acknowledge one another,- 
an entirely different set of rules for how to behave.'
"The Ascent to Christ is a struggle thro' one 
heresy after another, River-wise up-country into 
a proliferation of Sects and Sects branching from 
Sects, unto Deism, faithless pretending to be 
holy, and beyond,- ever away from the Sea, from 
the Harbor, from all that was serene and certain, 
into an Interior unmapp'd, a Realm of Doubt. The 
Nights. The Storms and Beasts. The Falls, the 
Rapids,...the America of the Soul."
" . . . slowly into the Room begin to walk the 
Black servants, the Indian poor, the Irish 
runaways, the Chinese Sailors, the overflow'd 
from the mad Hospital, all unchosen Philadelphia . . ."
And in IV:
" . .  down past Long Beach, down through Orange 
County, and San Diego, and across the border 
where nobody could tell anymore in the fog who 
was Mexican, who was Anglo, who was anybody."