Lisstpvr (378) brief unannotated list of topics so far

[Thomas Eckhardt]

I recommend "The President's Emergency War Powers and the Erosion of 
Civil Liberties in Pynchon's /Vineland/" by David Thoreen, which is 
still available here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100607060958/http:/tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/okla/thoreen24.htm

Many thanks once again to John M. Krafft for pointing me to this essay.

Here is some more background:

https://wearethemutants.com/2017/03/13/look-it-up-check-it-out-rex-84-and-the-history-of-an-american-conspiracy/

See also Christopher Ketcham, "The Last Roundup", which is still 
available here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080831101327/http://www.radaronline.com/from-the-magazine/2008/05/government_surveillance_homeland_security_main_core_01.php

I therefore suggest to add to the list of topics:

REX 84

"‘In the olden days we called it the last roundup,’ DL explained. ‘Liked 
to scare each other with it, thought it was always real enough. The day 
they’d come and break into your house and put everybody in prison camps. 
Not fun or sitcom prison camps, more like feedlots where we’d all become 
official, nonhuman livestock.’
‘You’ve seen camps like this?’ At once there seeped into the cheery 
space a silence like a stain in the light. Ditzah, at her editing table 
trembling, seemed to turn her body from what DL would say, to present 
less of a target, but DL only answered evenly.
‘Yep, I’ve seen ’em, your mom was in one, you’ll recall, but better than 
us reminiscing and boring you, go to the library sometime and read about 
it. Nixon had machinery for mass detention all in place and set to go. 
Reagan’s got it for when he invades Nicaragua. Look it up, check it out.’"

VL, 264.

(This comes just before one of my favourite passages in all of Pynchon, 
the final paragraph of the chapter on pages 266 and 267.)