More proof that there are no fascists

[Michael Bailey]

what would Pynchon say?

 in V., he suggests the US is the proud possessor of a magnificent
flotilla and air power.  these things are indisputable - unlike the
nature of truth, beauty and justice - and allow the claiming of
various rights inside and beyond its borders, which are decided upon
by various functionaries in Washington DC.  In the book we experience
DC as a place where a date-able woman wearing Bermuda shorts is among
the people our hero (at least in the sense of we are sort of rooting
for him) Benny Profane has contact with.  The suggestion is that the
moral truths that animate the book (and BP's quest for them) live
inside the armory rather than the armory living inside them...and they
can be found by those who seek, if they aren't distracted.  The
self-delusions, momentary pleasures, and deep-down body urge to
procreate which continually animate BP's awareness and among which his
profounder moral truths occasionally surface may in fact be
correlatives to the military superstructure of society; but just as
the base may be obscured by the superstructure, still, though
invisible, it remains underneath and all the rest is founded upon it



-- 
"I am a whiz with pudding in large quantities.  But I don't foretell
the future." - Miles Blundell