IVIV (0) This Lively Yarn

[kelber at mindspring.com]

I was referring back to a comment someone made about how the narrator (Pynchon-Doc) of the video seems to be bilocated in both the present and 1970. 
Outside of acid trips as a time-travel device, the unseen narrator in the book seems firmly rooted in 1969.  Still, the sensibilities seem somewhat inauthentic, anachronistic for the times.  The ARPAnet would be a weird (and cool) aside if we were reading about it in 1970.  Its significance for us in the present day is drastically different.  I've noted before that W.A.S.T.E. must appear different to readers encountering it for the first time in the Internet Age, as opposed to those of us who first read COL49 way back when.

Laura  

-----Original Message-----
>From: Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com>
>Sent: Aug 18, 2009 12:20 PM
>To: kelber at mindspring.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: RE: IVIV (0) This Lively Yarn
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>SPOILER 
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>>  Outside of the video-promo, there doesn't seem to be anything in the book indicating time-shift
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>What about the time-travel LSD stuff?
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