TPPM Watts: the Gospel of Progress versus Watts the Real

[Dave Monroe]

But also, on said Angelinian "unreality," cf. ...

"It was difficult even for us, old fans who've always
been at the movies (haven't we?) ..." (GR, p. 760)

That "Orpheus Theater" is ostensibly, at least, in
L.A., isn't it?  Gravity's Rainbow as a sort of "white
fantasy"?  "The screen is a dim page spread before us,
white and silent" (ibid.).  "Fantasy"--and, esp.,
"white fantasy," up to and including those of
Weissmann, Blicero, Die Bleicher (bhel, blank)--as a
recurrent theme, word, even, all throughout GR ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0105&msg=55316

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0308&msg=84118

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0409&msg=9325

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0409&msg=93390

Okay, gotta run, but, thanks ...

--- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> One notices early on the dichotomy drawn between
> the "real" Watts and "unreal" White L.A.
>  
> "Watts lies impacted in the heart of this white
> fantasy. It is, by contrast, a pocket of bitter
> reality."
> 
> Is the "unreality" of the whites mainly confined
> to the black perception. Is it also Pynchon's
> perception? ...

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