M&D preambulatory profferings

[Joseph Tracy]

Starting to read through the M&D posts and since I am not always on the same page as Alice I just want to agree that this is  a delightful discussion all around. 
One interesting mention of Cherrycoke's delinquent youth concerns what sounds a lot like whistleblowing journalism. I wonder if, considering also his sorrows over the lives lost in the war, there  is a hint of TomPaine in the Reverend. TomPaine tenderized by time and the cost of great adventures and the drawing of lines.  

On Jan 5, 2015, at 4:47 PM, alice malice wrote:

>> Like you said, and I totally agree,    "Pynchon is consistently subversive of historical and political notions of "belonging" to categories and institutions, consistently upending our views of history's cusps and transitions and frontiers.”   (That’s one of the things I thoroughly enjoy about reading him.)
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> An excellent discussion on this topic all round.
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> A question: if Pynchon is subverting the  historical and political
> notions of belonging, who holds the notions he subverts?
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