Pynchon Tribute Nugget

[John Atchison]

Megapynchons of paranoia......Excellent!!!!!

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> From: EBURNS 351-1-343-2517 <EBURNS at ap.org>
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Pynchon Tribute Nugget
> Date: Thursday, July 17, 1997 9:31 AM
> 
> Foax:
> 	   
> 	   Just finished off Kim Stanley Robinson's Three
> Californias Trilogy (The Wild Shore, The Gold Coast and
> Pacific Edge), with three distinctly different views of the
> future of that paradise by the sea, southern California.
> 	   Sumpin that caught my eye in the middle of The Gold Coast
> - which is about a drug-drenched future, mixed in with
> terrorist activities against the military industrial complex
> - and might be of interest to this list:
> 	   
> 	   "That'd be one way to find out, sure. But it would be
> dangerous, I mean some of you might just disappear."
> 	   Jim feels his throat and stomach take a big swallow.
> Disappear?
> 	   His paranoia quotient soars into the megapynchons, his
> understanding of his sabotage adventure with Arthur trapdoors
> out from under him, leaving him hanging like, well, yes, like
> a man stuck in a tree on the side of a cliff. 
> 	   (Page 143, Orb Books edition).
> 
> 	   Given that Robinson's Orange County of the future owes at
> least a little bit to TP's semiconductor vision of the area
> in COL49, I thought this a nice one-off homage. 
> 	   
> 	   Cheers, Erik