Vineland underrated

[Prsamsa at aol.com]

Oops, slippery fingers, just forgive--empty posts--

On one point in this post,  I find "The Crying of Lot 49" the best intro to 
Pynchon,
though Slow Learner, the short stories are not bad.  "V"  I like more
and more the older I get and the slower I read.  Pynchon had the
prosody-poetry thang going by then, more than in his shorts.  

"Lot 49" I like because it seems fresh, still, the culture shock of SoCal
 to a NEngland boy,  the satire on the John Birchers-- and someone like
Howard Hughes in Pierce Inverarity and I still dig
the bitter engineering guys, the fact that good ole Boeing and Douglas
and Hughes Air (and Motorola and M'soft) "own the rights" to intellectual
work, unlike TP's own work, or other authors who, lone-gunmen like,
work alone-- The child star--lawyer, Dr. Hilarious,
his search for a 4th for the bridge inward--when I get down, I like to
remember:  Don't do it, Dr. H., humanity has been in worse straits
than this totalitarian century (see:  A Distant Mirror by BA Tuchman
on the calamitous 14th Century) and has come out of it--and I love
Oedipus' dilemna at the end, which seems a very postmodern quest,
perhaps even postmoral--just 
"because everything seems to add up",
let's say just because there were a lot of people who wanted JF Kennedy
dead--does that mean that Oswald, a very confused man and a pretty
good marksman?  -- Couldn't have acted alone?

I refer conspiritaphiles to the two snipers in the DC-Maryland area, 2002, 
and the fact that a hunter with a pretty good scope can hit a heart or 
shoulder
area pretty well from about twice as far away as Oswald's range.  

Perry.
non-sig.
Jeez, I'm on a roll.  
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