Not Pynchon but Pynchon's IG Farben.

[Mark Kohut]

"Get them to understand why when we bomb Frankfurt the I.G. Farben plants
are not touched" --a radio playwriting star in
Roth's *I Married a Communist. *Which is shaping itself in my mind to be
one of the few great political novels--but more, too, as
this political is embedded, embodied in the personal, of course. Better
than Roth's later, "lighter" -- because more melodramatic, I'd say-- but
more sellingly famous *The Plot *
*Against America.* To *feel *the Cold War "threat" of Communism and its
effect on shaping and warping our polity---and, with a simple mental flip
up to all the kinds of warped paranoid thinking about who believes what and
why.....and how they act because  of it, from Truman to Roth's character's
Everydad.....as solid as a brick shithouse.

The Rothian character, 15, has submitted a radio play to an older
acquaintance who got it to the famous playwright called *The Stooge of
Torquemada, LOL, *
doesn't that title alone remind you of the unfinished joke in Mason &
Dixon?