V---2nd, Epilogue, spying in

[Mark Kohut]

There are still a lot of thing sto talk about in the epilogue if we want
but I am gonna focus on one thing here. 

Spying. This lifelong theme in TRP's work gets its first workout here.
This reading, after AtD, I am now reminded of the Vienna section of that work
wherein spying as Bad Shit is also sourced. 

Spying: surreptitously learning and passing on to Authorities the personal,
private, naturally-lived life of others. Authority = the State. 

I am also reminded that TRP name-checks Le Carre in the intro to 1984, right?

Some say---I am one---that underneath all of TRP's oftentimes savage 
satirization
of the age, of the West, of the History of the West he believes-- as a lost 
vision-- in regular folk
living straightforward lives with neighbors and family in village-sized 
communities

then spying on one's citizen-neighbors is the start of violating that 
life......see 1984, that novel he loves. 

TRP notices and sez this in the Epilogue:
'A spy is at home nowhere". 

The spy as the real ( and symbolic)  embodiment of deracination, that
essential condition of modernity, most say. TRP = anti-modernity [AtD most]

Spying enabled modernity, so to speak...