V--2nd, half-way

alice wellintown alicewellintown at gmail.com
Mon Oct 18 20:28:23 CDT 2010


What does "pegged" mean? Satirized?

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Oct 18, 2010, at 4:45 PM, alice wellintown wrote:
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>> Literary Ecology and Postmodernity in Thomas Sanchez's Mile Zero and
>> Thomas Pynchon's Vineland
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> Got as far as finding big bleeding hunks over at Google Books, makes some
> rough places plain. I've long had a deep connection with the Ecological,
> Neo-Marxist and Feminist "Reclaiming" movement. If you mentioned the New
> England Transcendentalists sooner there may have been fewer smoke and
> flames. And let's face it Charlie -- a lot of those "Ecological, Neo-Marxist
> and Feminist "Reclaiming" types" are pegged in Against the Day, even moreso
> in "Inherent Vice." Particularly as they leard to adapt to the "New Age."
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> On Oct 18, 2010, at 4:45 PM, alice wellintown wrote:
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>> see Orphic Contra Gnostic.
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> I guess you're pointing to the last chapter of  Dwight Eddins' "The Gnostic
> Pynchon"?
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