Fwd: Time Frame I.V.

Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Wed Dec 3 18:57:54 CST 2008


And his solutions usually hinge on buried Freudian depths...


--- On Wed, 12/3/08, malignd at aol.com <malignd at aol.com> wrote:

> From: malignd at aol.com <malignd at aol.com>
> Subject: Fwd: Time Frame I.V.
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 5:12 PM
> He's just about the best plotter there is, at least in
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> Ross Macdonald's sombre Lew Archer
> novel of 1968. Masterly book - in the genre of hardboiled
> crime fiction,
> it is hard to surpass Macdonald.
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> From: Heikki Raudaskoski <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi>
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> To: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
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> Sent: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 6:17 am
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> Subject: Re: Time Frame I.V.
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> When DL and Frenesi first met in Berkeley around 1967, the
> "jukebox played
> the Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe
> and the Fish."
> (VL, 117) Maybe Shasta was hanging around Berkeley too
> (familiar with DL
> and Frenesi, even?). Or maybe she was an Angeleno all
> along.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Heikki
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> On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, rich wrote:
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> > 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
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> > 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
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> > Rich
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