VLVL College of the Surf and PR3

[Terrance]

> 
> I think we'd narrowed it down a little more precisely than that. The episode
> at College of the Surf occurs during early to mid-1969, approximately
> half-way between the protests at Columbia in spring '68 and the tragic
> confrontations at Kent State and Jackson State in May 1970. The mention of
> Berkeley in the text refers to 1964.

The episode at the College of the Surf is set in 1969, but the episodes
at Berkeley are sometime earlier, 67-68. 

> Thanks for the Sale quotes. I still don't agree that Pynchon satirises the
> Berkeley and Columbia protests in this novel, and I'm not at all convinced
> that he has set out to parody Sale's book.

You are implying that I'm arguing that Pynchon set out to ridicule Sale
or his text. I'm not. 

Pynchon's episode is a parodic fictionalization of the events and
organizations described by Sale.