IVIV parody?

[Joseph Tracy]

I guess I don't think of Manson as a hippie any more than I think of  
Jim Jones as a Christian or Myer Lansky as a Jewish Idealogue.   Also  
most idealists I know are not crazed, just you know, idealistic. I do  
like the "who is?" question and agree that Doc is plausible as is.
On Oct 24, 2009, at 12:20 PM, Henry Musikar wrote:

> If Doc is any less than wholly genuine, it begs the question "who is?"
> Doc's internal dialogue/narration is as pure hippy/stoner as The  
> Dude's, and
> don't forget Lebowski's willingness to do a little work for the man.
> Slothrop was in the Army, for gooness sake, and M&D were cutting up  
> the
> earth itself for aristocrats.  That Doc is not a crazed idealist  
> only makes
> him more real/genuine and less of a symbol for some ideal that  
> Pynchon has
> repeatedly illustrated as (usually)  delusional and unrealistic,  
> and one
> extremity of which was Charles Manson, the most famous hippie  
> ideologue of
> all.
>
> Henry Mu
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