It Was Twenty Years Ago Today

[Robin Landseadel]

On Apr 9, 2009, at 8:12 AM, rich wrote:

> Both Vineland and 49 were topical stories (written for most part in
> the present tense)
> IV will be the first of these California books to be written about the
> past exclusively (unless there;s a time machine-ha)

Nearly the present tense, in fact there's a bit of manipulating the  
ol' time machine in both books. Vine, published in 1990, is set in  
1984 but mostly focuses on 1969. The Crying of Lot 49 was published in  
1966, is set in 1964 but really seems to be about 1967.

Considering what "Against the Day" was all about your time machine  
theory is not far off at all.