Time Frame I.V.

[rich]

isn't 2009 shaping up to be kinda another time of external expansion
(wars in Asia and Middle East) and internal collapse (withering
economy)

rich


>
> Anyway, my wild guess is 1969. In an essay on TCoL49, Kate Hayles writes
> something to the effect that GR is most intensely about 1969, a year of
> external expansion (Apollo 11) and internal collapse in the U.S. at the
> same time.
>
> Not that there is much peace and love to be found in The Instant Enemy
> (kinda resonates with IV, doesn't it?), Ross Macdonald's sombre Lew Archer
> novel of 1968. Masterly book - in the genre of hardboiled crime fiction,
> it is hard to surpass Macdonald.
>
>
> Heikki
>
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, rich wrote:
>
>> i ask again--the new book states end of the 60s--some would mark 1966
>> as the end of the 60s, some 1968
>> in any case, if Doc's girlfriend Shasta is wearing a faded Country Joe
>> and the Fish T-shirt could one guess that the book takes place in the
>> early 1970s?
>> Country Joe gained popularity at Woodstock, no? for that anti-war tune
>>
>> If I would guess on one character that will reappear in the new book
>> it would be Flash, Frenesi's on the run, off the grid partner
>>
>> Rich
>>
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