BEg2 chapter 17 Lighthouse lament; the briefest of envois

[Mark Kohut]

Well, I think the "narrowing of options" as that paragraph has it that
eliminates the Republican Party as one of the meanings is just that.
Anti-Pynchon and incorrect.   Why would someone reduce Pynchon like this?

I have reread the Chapter and we can all notice that on p 192 there is
another specific reference: "barking-mad Republicans"....I say
almost prescient or at least a bleeding edge political observation as
almost all straight-seeing observers of American politics and society
can see the growing madness of a large proportion of the Republican
Party.....Madness defined the clear old-fashioned way: out of touch with
reality.

On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 3:17 AM Hübschräuber <huebschraeuber at protonmail.com>
wrote:

> Yes. I don't think this refers to the Republican Party. It is an
> interesting phrase.
>
> I would also like to note that on page 194 the reference ("Cold War
> salvation") is to Continuity of Government planning during the Cold War.
> CoG measures were implemented on September 11, 2001, for the first time in
> US history (see Commission Report, p. 326 and in particular 555). To the
> best of my knowledge, these measures are still in place. Compare also the
> anger the narrator later in the novel directs against the use of "Ground
> Zero".
>
>
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> Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> schrieb am Montag, 7. Februar 2022 um
> 19:02:
>
> > But going back to the text, Republican could easily mean and in fact with
> >
> > the sweeping histories involved
> >
> > probably does mostly mean, the US Republic......You know, as Franklin
> said,
> >
> > "a Republic if you can keep it"
> >
> > associatively.
>
>