GRGR3: Discussion Opener for Section 3

[matthew.percy at utoronto.ca]

I've been thinking about L.A. and PYnchon alot lately... In Mike Davis 
incredible book on L.A., _City of Quartz_ and its history, he cites Pynchon 
quite a 
bit (especially the famous descriptions of San Narciso and Southern 
Calfornia in _CL49_), which got me pretty interested in the conclusion of 
_GR_'s location (L.A.).  Thinking of Los Angeles as the most 
technologized city in America (and at teh time of _GR_, the world) , the 
end-point of American imperialism/expansionism makes the conclusion of 
_GR_ read much more like a jeremiad, and helps connect it nicely to the 
sections on the Zone and WWII.  I'd recommend Davis' book to everyone, v. 
well written and Pynchonian to the extreme; there's even an
interesting discussion on the experience of European 
intellectuals-in-exile during the 30s and WWII, in particular those of 
Adorno, Horkheimer, Mann...

- Matt


n Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Brent Buescher wrote:

> hankhank at ccwf.cc.utexas.edu writes:
> 
> >In Los Angeles, during WWII. Do I smell some kinda quirky displacements
> >here?
> 
> Yeah... actually I've tried reading GR with the mindset "This is all
> really happening in LA" with interesting results.  Recommended.
> 
> Brent
>