(np) some nice general opinioning

[alice wellintown]

The youg republican, Oedipa, in looking for America, finds the new
face of it. the dems beack then had it figured out and the reps, who
were folding in the solid white or now white citizens, irish and
evenitalians, were not thinking about Obama and what immigration and
all those new faces and slivers of the american pie might mean in the
future. the dems, ted kennedy and even lbj, that's right the boys from
texas, were opening the gate to all manner of people and ideas, it was
a struggle to define the nation and the dems were arguing that it was
un-american to keep all these new american faces from melting into the
pot. the book takes a ironic look at this idea of who is UN-american,
though the satire is muted by Oedipa; she quite a nice little lady
who, though she's been sleeping with a capitalist robbber barron, is
no ideologue, no young republican as that term would be applied to the
reagan daze when the young yuppies got reagan religion. so, to push
her, as a mouthpiece of Pynchon political radicalism seems a farce.

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 4:41 AM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:59 AM, Michael Bailey
> <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Rosa Luxemburg does figure in _Gravity's Rainbow_
>
> Who doesn't?     ;---)