The Big Fix (1978)

[Henry Musikar]

My "Last Whole Earth Catalog" is in a box.
http://tinyurl.com/lastwholeearthcat  
It was big and unwieldy, but I loved it. As much as anything else, it turned
me on to a number of important books such as G. Spencer-Brown's "Laws of
Form."  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Spencer-Brown  

One of its features was "Divine Right's Trip." Wikipedia describes it as "a
1972 novel by Gurney Norman set in the 1960s which chronicles the awakening
of the hippie stoner Divine Right (Davenport) as he travels with his patient
and introspective VW Bus, Urge. It was originally printed in installments as
an adjunct in The Last Whole Earth Catalog. Initially he travels with his
'lady' Estelle and they meet up with characters such as 'The Lone
Outdoorsman' (a curiously warm hearted right-wing reactionary character) and
'The Greek'. Eventually Divine Right finds himself travelling alone back to
his Appalachian roots. Norman also wrote the short story collection
Kinfolks: The Wilgus Stories (1977). Both the novel and the short stories
share an Appalachian background." 

Henry Mu
Sr. IT Consultant
http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20/  

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Bailey

 David Kipen wrote:
> Never fails. I send a brief, informative post, and what do I hear back?
Crickets.

no, that's my kitchen fan.  needs oiling.  badly.

anyway, thanks for the tip about The Big Fix, but Amazon want $25 for it.
Not in my budget this pay  period, nor probably next one either...

here is my try at a brief, informative post:
Zomes were mentioned in The Last Whole Earth Catalog,
which came out in 1970.
here is some more about that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zome 

I could ramble on and on about the Whole Earth Catalog and how cool it was,
and how people built these anarchist paradises like Drop City,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_City and they were
ruined by drug abuse, implacable authorities and simple human
irresponsibility
in many cases, and so forth...but was hoping maybe Pynchon would set his
next novel in such a place and not have it fall prey to those forces, since
Coraghessen Boyle has already done a pretty  good job of showing that
in his novel,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_City_(novel)
which I keep meaning to read, and now probably really will as an appendage
to reading IV.

But I won't (Oops - too late!)


-- 
"My God, I am fully in favor of a little leeway or the damnable jig is
up! " - Hapworth Glass