Woodstock in Inherent Vice

[Mark Kohut]

No, missed both book and movie, I confess.....

but, yes, it sounds just right..and I'm gonna see that movie soon now.

--- On Sun, 8/16/09, Daniel Cape <daniel.cape at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Daniel Cape <daniel.cape at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Woodstock in Inherent Vice
> To: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Sunday, August 16, 2009, 8:38 PM
> Haven't read IV... BUT your mention
> of the 'Beach'  reminds me of the
> bit in Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas (the moovie not the
> book at least.
> Er, haven't read that either), the quite moving and
> eloquent bit where
> the camera spirals upwards as Duke recounts his 24 Hour
> Imipolexing
> Plastic Inevitable/All Nite Flite-type experience where he
> encounters
> Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers in the bathroom with
> LSD pon
> sleeve, and then (and here's the moving bit) eulogises the
> 60s:
> something about having a vantage point from where, if you
> look hard
> enough, with the right kinda eyes, you can just about see
> where the
> wave broke upon the shore and retreated.
> Y'know the bit?
> 
> > Beyond literal allusions or playlist artists, which
> are lacking as has been pointed out, might we all (mostly)
> > agree that Woodstock, the event, is thematically the
> 'Beach'
> > in the epigraph and pervades in other words and
> concepts in IV?
>