VLVL College of the Surf and PR3

[jbor]

>> 
>> I agree that PR3 occurs after 1968, and that it's not set in Columbia or
>> Berkeley. 
> 
> Can't be since it's set at the fictional College of the Surf.
> 
> But the narrator compares the violence at College of the Surf with
> Berkeley and Columbia.

Where does the narrator compare the violence at College of the Surf with
Berkeley and Columbia? The paragraph at 208 where the comparison is made
emanates from Rex's perspective, and the points of comparison between the
formation of a student political organisation (ADHOC) at College of the Surf
and "Berkeley and Columbia standards" are "innocent festivity" and "the
emerging junta". Rex is a *graduate* student, so he has certainly been on
the scene since the early '60s, and he's making a comparison with the
student revolts at Berkeley in 1964 (picketing of the Oakland _Tribune_ for
racial discrimination, FSM sit-in in Dec., and the couple of years of campus
unrest which followed) and at Columbia in 1968. Rex has nothing whatsoever
to do with DL's arrival at Berkeley narrated earlier in the text (but I also
think it's clear that DL has been with 24fps for a number of years prior to
the College of the Surf incident.)

I really think we're going to have to agree to disagree on this one,
Terrance.

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> There are several violent years at Berkeley. In
> fact, a  violent scene at Berkeley is described in VL. It's not 1964.
> 
> VL.115 
> 
> That looks like 1969 to me.
> 
> What brings DL to Berkeley is the Action, the violence that is making
> news. What she finds there is Frenesi filming a confrontation. That
> scene reads like 1969. A very violent year at Berkeley. In fact I
> suspect this is May 1969.