IVIV (0) This Lively Yarn

[John Carvill]

> 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.

Particularly at the start of teh video, he keeps switching tenses.
That, coupled with the puzzle over when the footage was shot, messes
with out sense of time.

> Outside of acid trips as a time-travel device, the unseen narrator in the book seems firmly rooted in 1969.

Ironically, I was pretty firm in my belief that it was set in 1970,
not (literally) the Sixties.

>  Still, the sensibilities seem somewhat inauthentic, anachronistic for the times.

Agree. I increasingly ask myself just how tethered to its ostensible
period teh narrative is.

>  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.

Good point indeed.