IVIV Chap 2, opening paragraph, p19

[Mark Kohut]

I do like this paragraph, although I know others did not (when it was part of an early sample)...So, we have a discussion.

Me: another fine Pynchon list, almost in a lyrical shorthand, full of bits of life, landscape, P's themes. Love the adulterous dentists and lurid teen dramas...seems to me to kinda echo the poignant sadness of the list categorizing Mucho's car's detritus in L49. 

I hear Steinbeck in "pickups with mattreses ..and country cousins" ....
"Horizonless fields of housing..under power transmission"...pure Pynchon condemnation...

"sky like watered milk...the white bombardment of a sun, etc."...if anything psychedelic, etc.'....More distinct echoes of Day of the Locust and a sun-bleached monotony?...the full range of colors [see AtD]---psychedelia---is a missing-in-LA good thing ......

just a cute correspondence, I bet...but I just read a line about the sky like milk in Cormac McCarthy's The Orchard Keeper, but I'm sure there are thousands of such similes......

But a somewhat famous phrase from "Blood Meridian" is "pandemonium of the sun"...(which we know Pynchon was probably aware of from an homage on The John Larroquette Show in the 90s) is echoed for me in ..."white bombardment of the sun'.....with P's white resonances... 


P.S. having read a couple of Chandler mysteries because of enthusiastic plisters, I wanted to point out, and now is the time, that I noticed at least two long-enough list descriptions, with just commas as grammar, in Chandler. I'm sure there are more. P seemed, especially in GR, to, as usual, push the technique over-the-top and turn it comic. What say ye  Chandler amateur-experts (oxymoron intended and high praise)?