Back to our regularly scheduled novelist.

[Michael Bailey]

if we did those 2 before,
and then did IV
it would only be natural to progress from IV to V wouldn't it?

just sayin'

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:47 PM,  <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>           Lawrence Bryan: Now back to our regularly scheduled novelist.
>
> So what'll it be? Lookin' at CoL 49 & Vineland, we've got a total of 537
> pages [give or take a few depending on what counterfeit bootleg or
> stripped remainder of '49' you've been reading out of.]  My guess is
> that those 537 pages will have a lot more to do with Inherent Vice than
> V. will—we just went through a bit of V. redux anyway.
>
> There's about 8 months until I.V.  At a sprightly pace of 5 pages a week
> we could cover both before the next episode of "Ruggles Follies."
> There'd be two months of '49' and four or five of Vineland.
>
> Or were there other plans?
>
> Yr. obd. svt.,
> Osbie Feel
>
> P.S. somethin' tells me I.V. will be more CoL 49 than Vineland, but not
> much more than. Maybe it's because CoL 49 is more of a psychedelic
> noir than Vineland. And maybe it's because 1969 is closer to 1964 than
> to 1984. But I fully expect to see Zoyd and Mucho, maybe even a flash
> of Oedipa on the beach.
>



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