Guess you Had to be there

[Michael Bailey]

rich wrote:
> Finished IV this morning--I understand most here love the book and
> that's OK but I really didn't like it.
> I can give you reasons but what's the point. I'll just say maybe you
> had to be there. It was a struggle to finish
>

but wait, didn't you like the implicit commentary when that one guy did
the thing with the, you know?
and then how all the different folks - broke it down
and ran it down for Doc?
that for me was the peak...(although the bargain he makes, sort of
tops it off with a cherry...)
him learning more and more,
each time more noir, scurrilous, malicious, delicious,
...and then the trips he takes...physical and mental...

There really are zomes, you could look it up.

...and then the denouement. Where they end up, all,
you know... and it's kind of a metaphor for, like, other things!
Plus the fact of you-know-who coming to visit Doc.
That is kind of special in a Pynchon book.

just my .02.  Of course I liked it!