Manson Cult; was Golden Fang

[grladams at teleport.com]

I think Pynchon has preferences, and they are persuasive, but not fist
waving protests. Who of us hasn't with misty eyes despite the foreground
action, noticed in the distance the train moving west, a light burning
overhead pressing us to stay awake and work, a loss of magic, the loss of
peace.. His novels prefer subversion of commercial channels, they question
the status of real estate, prefer earlier forms of light and magnetism.
They honor the spiritual and bring seeing to the unseen, such as the
sentience of rock and oil. Maybe it's just my own interpretations, but
there are some serious beliefs running through his books. 


Jill

Original Message:
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From: Otto ottosell at googlemail.com
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:57:29 +0200
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Manson Cult; was Golden Fang


2009/9/27 alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>:
> Yes, but this doesn't support the argument that his fictions are
> protest novels. The P-list has become a discussion of the politics of
> Pynchon. Those who advance non-political readings or other arguments
> are labled fascists. The FANBOYS are poor readers of fiction and,
> frustrated muckraking journalists, who crowd out any serious critiques
> of the works.
>

Who has claimed that they are?

Has it? I don't see that. What I see are differences of the
interpretation of "Pynchon's Politics" and the refusal to discuss that
by the "shitty-essay"-fraction.

Any serious critique of pynchon's works wouldn't try to exclude its
politics.

IV clearly is no protest novel, the reminder of Woodstock is just a
"faded Country Joe & the Fish T-shirt" (1). But it tells how the
Manson-case has been used to slur the hippies and the counterculture
in general and how the hippies fell into private consumer culture.

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