Re: Pynchon's Presidents

Howdy

Clinton may have been a "liar", but he was *our* liar. If P's easy
little jest highlights anything, it is Clinton's obsession with
remaining "politically viable" by maintaining the consistent policy of
interpersonal and linguistic ambiguity that made him, for better AND
worse, both a magnificent politician and a really really shitty
husband. Compare and contrast with Bush II -- magnificent husband (so
we are told) and (almost certainly) a mendacious shit-stack of a
politician. And he's not *my* mendacious shit-stack, either...

Mark

--- jbor <[email protected]> wrote:
> on 25/6/02 12:11 AM, Mark Wright AIA at [email protected] wrote:
> 
> > Cheap jokes are part'n'parcel of P's grand burlesque show
> methodology.
> > Is Clinton really being "lambasted quite scathingly"? The jest
> sounds
> > affectionate, don't you think?
> 
> Not sure. It highlights the fact that he was a liar. Depends whether
> or not
> you find that funny.
> 
> > Truman, now --- shit; P doesn't have any sweet little cheap jokes
> for
> > him --- no sir.
> > 
> I agree. The other provocative suggestion in _GR_ is the contention
> that FDR
> was "put to sleep" (374.8).
> 
> best
> 
> 
> 


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