Something about the militarization of the police, was it in I.V.?

[Mark Thibodeau]

It being my first Pynchon -- even before Crying of Lot 49! -- I have always
had a great fondness for it.

On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 9:27 AM jerry locklee <locklee_jerry at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> I never fogret the crew cuts running into the forests chanting ,  War on
> drugs, war on drugs!   I was disappoined with Vineland when it first came
> out. (Been waiting a long time for that book.)  Now I consider it to be an
> important work.
>
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> *From:* Pynchon-l <pynchon-l-bounces at waste.org> on behalf of Mark
> Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 3, 2020 7:06 AM
> *To:* jody2.718 <jody2.718 at protonmail.com>
> *Cc:* pynchon-l at waste.org <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> *Subject:* Re: Something about the militarization of the police, was it
> in I.V.?
>
> Definitely LOTS of that stuff in Vineland, that's for sure. And a lot of it
> was pretty goofy, too, which means deadly serious by your reckoning, which
> I agree with.
>
> Jerky
>
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 10:15 AM jody2.718 via Pynchon-l <
> pynchon-l at waste.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Leftward slant to the light throughout all the works, a'course, but a
> more
> > blantant lampooning in IV? And, it seems to me, that often the more
> > cartoonish the portraiture, the more deadly serious the message, at least
> > with this particular author.
> >
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