Woodstock - SPOILER ALERT

[John Bailey]

MEGA SPOOOOOILERS

St Flip surfs like a, well, a saint. He's visible from the heavens and
is an almost supernatural figure to the land-bound.

The isolation of the headphoned music fan is echoed throughout IV.
Read the last two pages again. Brings the internet into the equation
again, along with other stuff. Hell, it effectively brings facebook
in. For better or worse? I'd say it all comes down to how you
interpret "fog" on a less than literal level.

The different visual perspectives on LA that are offered in IV all
seem to have an affective element, and one that speaks to something
bigger in the novel's intent. Watching the surf from the beach,
watching the beach from the water, Portola's clear-eyed view of a
paradise way back when and the eventual settling of a fog that reduces
everything to uni-directional motion... Why do they call it 'real'
estate? Real estate and property are the paving stones in IV, but I'm
unclear what the beach is.

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 7:02 AM, rich<richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> like the Beach Boys--only Dennis Wilson surfed despite all those
> Surfer Girl type songs
>
> I may be mistaken but I think I remember Brian Wislon saying he was
> afraid of the water/ocean
>
> speaking of love this song:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcUeSDMll5s
>
> rich
>
> On 8/18/09, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Do note, for alln the rhetoric about surfing, for all the trappings of
>> surf culture, et al., nobody SPOILER ALERT actually much seems to surf
>> here.  The ocean, at any rate ...
>>
>>
>