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[Robin Landseadel]

On Oct 17, 2009, at 2:44 AM, alice wellintown wrote:

> There are several excellent articles, the publication was a special
> issue of the Oklahoma City University Law Review, it is Volume 24,
> Number 3 (1999). I'm fairly certain that WE can read all of the
> articles online at the link provided.
>
> To the current crew, I recommend, THE PRESIDENT'S EMERGENCY WAR POWERS
> AND THE EROSION OF CIVIL LIBERTIES IN PYNCHON'S VINELAND by DAVID
> THOREEN:

http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/okla/thoreen24.htm

Here's a portal to other articles in the Oklahoma City University Law  
Review relating to Pynchon:

http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/local/cgi-bin/htsearch?words=pynchon&config=lawlibrary&restrict=%2Flpop%2Fetext%2F&exclude=

On Oct 17, 2009, at 2:44 AM, alice wellintown wrote:

> In America, Pynchon sees, and asks that
> his sophisticated reader to see, that the ideals of democracy have
> been degraded to a censorious and inquisitorial CONTROL of thought,
> expression and action; its freedoms have been subordinated to
> self-interest and the accumulation of wealth; and its individual
> determination has been leveled to the purveying wholesale of articles
> of common taste. This great sleep of freedom, this great American
> error, this transforming of Freedom to its contrary, constitutes the
> "Perfect Plot" of the tragedy of American History. This is Pynchon's
> Politics.  Ultimately, the advance of Humankind involves Freedom of
> the Spirit, for freedom in this sense is the prerequisite, as well as
> the end, of democratic institutions.

I'd get into this with Alice, but the TV beckons . . .

Ah . . .nearer my couch to thee . . .