IVIV IV & Playboy article

[Paul Mackin]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robin Landseadel" <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: IVIV IV & Playboy article


> 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.
>
> If you want to talk about something else, go ahead, but don't call me  an 
> idiot every time I bring the subject up. You look like a  reactionary when 
> you do.
>

Robin, Robin . . . . Alice is only pointing out that spending a lot of time 
noticing random Left noises comining out of Pynchon novels (or most literary 
novels for that matter) is kind of a waste of valuable time that could be 
better spend looking for the more unexpected stuff.  It don't make her look 
like no reactionary to me.

What's interesting is when an obvious person of the Left takes a slight 
right turn once in a while for some reason or other. Like say when Mailer 
back when publishing Harlot's Ghost said (extra-textually) that America 
needed a CIA. (doesn't  mean he was right--the CIA is obviously the gang who 
couldn't shoot straight--can't even torture useful information out of Al 
Qaida or anything)

I must say I still enjoy your posts despite Alice's (well founded I believe) 
criticism.  They have verve.

P.