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Prairie Gates

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9. That's a good reading

Reply to leftstreet (Reply #8)

Mon Mar 16, 2026, 08:41 PM

14 hrs ago

Vineland was criticized early for being very sentimental: it ends with a grand family reunion that sounds a lot like "building networks of aid for food, shelter, care and hope." Subsequent Pynchon books took up a similar theme of community and hope. I think we might view PTA's portrayal of Sensei as attempting to capture Pynchon's focus on community filmically.

Vineland famously represents the destruction of a revolutionary occupation (the People's Republic of Rock n Roll) just as Against the Day represents the attack on the Ludlow Tent Colony. There's something to your reading, in other words.

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The only "revolutionary" was the sensei leftstreet 18 hrs ago #8

That's a good reading Prairie Gates 14 hrs ago #9