IVIV (1) context: Jameson, black cows at night & etc.

[Doug Millison]

On a good day, I'd like to think that Robin's view -- paraphrasing  
here with no intent to put words in his mouth -- of Pynchon showing us  
the magic door out of the mundane and into the mystery, is the real  
Pynchon, the true Pynchon, because I think in his writing practice he  
may be something like a shaman shuttling among worlds.

Something I remembered as I was thinking about Pynchon-l while  
watering the garden earlier today and watching the Bay a most amazing  
pinkish color reflecting the clouds reflecting the sunrise:  When  
Andrew Dinn was in the Bay Area some years ago, he, Tim Ware, and I  
met at Tim's place for a great afternoon of fine hospitality and  
Pynchon talk. Andrew asked a couple of times about Robin and was  
hoping that I would be able to help him get in touch.  Sorry I wasn't  
able to do that.  Andrew as some of you know is an astute reader of  
Pynchon, and he wanted to talk in more detail about Robin's research  
into the books and the role magic plays in them.

If in the ways that have been suggested, Doc does stand in for  
Pynchon, then I will take care to show more compassion for Doc,  
because that seems to me the stance that Pynchon the author takes with  
all his characters, even the "throwaways" which, if you think about  
it, aren't thrown away at all, but instead lovingly scooped up and  
given a home in his books, some of those Voices that would otherwise  
disappear into the black cow night as we read somewhere in Mason &  
Dixon.  If he didn't care about them, he wouldn't write about them.