Introduction: Text-Politics-Criticism-Methodology -- Retro-Vertigo: Escaping the Enlightenment in Mason & Dixon -- Two: Blank Checks: Invisibility and Economy in Mason & Dixon Chapter Three: Theatre of Operations: Surgery, War and Questing in V. and Gravity?s Rainbow Chapter Four: Memento-Mori: War-Life and War-Experience in Gravity?s Rainbow and V Chapter Five: (What?s so Funny ?Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding? Resistance vs. Withdrawal in The Crying of Lot 49 Chapter 6: Sir Yes Sir! Doing It To Yourself and Doing It For Yourself in Vineland Conclusion: Pynchon-Politics-Everybody