W.A.S.T.E metaphor unfolds in life

[John Bailey]

It would be just lovely if the official version about to appear is
nothing like the the pre-release novel at all. Or is an Iceland
spar-refracted version.

But all those complaints about VL not being political enough or
historical enough or philosophical enough are both right and wrong.
You can zip through the bastard in fifth gear, with the top down and
not even slowing as you reach the occasional corner.

But you can also (or afterwards) slow down, get off the freeway and
start looking more closely at all that flora and fauna by the side of
the road. You can make a geohistorical map of LA and surrounds just by
doing some research while reading the book, and along the way you'll
learn a great deal about the place from Gaspar de Portolà's arrival
onwards (Portola's name is close to Portela or "entryway" and not that
far from Sportello (which can also mean a door or window).

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Dave Monroe<against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Robin
> Landseadel<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> On Aug 2, 2009, at 3:05 PM, Dave Monroe wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Mark Kohut<markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> So, Dave Monroe has a copy of Inherent Vice waiting for him in a secret
>>>> place in a haunt he hasn't haunted as much.......remind anyone else of a
>>>> W.A.S.T.E postal drop?
>>>
>>> Left anonymously, for the record ...
>>
>>        "You hold meetings, then, like the AA?" "No, of course not. You get
>>        a phone number, an answering service you can call. Nobody
>>        knows anybody else's name; just the number in case it gets so bad
>>        you can't handle it alone. We're isolates, Arnold. Meetings would
>>        destroy the whole point of it."
>>
>>        "What about the person who comes to sit with you? Suppose you
>>        fall in love with them?"
>>
>>        "They go away," he said. "You never see them twice. The
>>        answering service dispatches them, and they're careful not to have
>>        any repeats."
>
> Handed to me whilst I knocked back a bottomless Diet Coke @ the bar ...
>
>