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By ERIC WAGNER
Special guest blogger
Mucho Maas, a character from Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49, gets mentioned on page 307. “Absquatulation” on page 308 means, “leave abruptly.”
I feel grateful to get the chance to reread this book. In tracing the history of the US from the blacklist scandal to Nixon to Reagan, it helps me understand how we got Trump and the world of 2025. I don’t have a clear idea of where we will go in 2026 and beyond though.
I like how this chapter foreshadows the ending of the book, and it makes me wonder why Pynchon called the novel Vineland. Also, do you consider Vineland science fiction? Certainly I’ve never seen it in the science fiction section of a bookstore, but the story does have a number of science fiction elements, from a UFO to thanatoids to other possible non-human intelligences.
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