IVIV Sportello

[John Carvill]

This are really heating up!

> SPOILERS:



> 1. Doc's LSD experience literalises his name

Great stuff, really like that.

> 2. Think of the reason Bigfoot got *his* name

Ladies and gentlemen, from Los Angeles, California: THE DOORS!

> 3. I'd totally forgotten how prominent doors and portals and liminal
> passing-over points are in AtD

Yes, plus there was surely a load in there about architecture, lot of
Italian stiff, lenses etc.


> 7. IV's been by my desk for a good month now and I've slowly
> discovered that dipping into it at random is a different experience to
> reading it 1-369. It's much more fragmentary than a straight read
> suggests, and the mindset I get into reading it as an attempt at a
> 'properly plotted' novel means that I completely miss some of the
> richness of individual sections. I can highly recommend flicking
> through and having a cruisy read of whatever you hit upon. Don't read
> it in terms of the overall shape of the novel.
>

Yes, very true. My first read, I went through it fast, in big chunks.
Second read was, of necessity, mnore fragmented, meaning I lost some
things but gained an appreciation of, as you say, inddividual sections
in isolation. Kinda like Vineland. Open it up at random and you'll see
just how 'light' it really isn't.