IVIV (1) Thinks He's Hallucinating

[alice wellintown]

Hallucinogens, like LSD, are used by characters in P's fiction,  like
Mucho Maas uses it, to become babies in the candy houses of their own
solipsistic minds, enjoy  mindless pleasures, and escape Death (the X
ray vision), responsibility. It sucks to be a used car salesman. All
those old rock stars getting young girls. I want MY MY MY MTV . . .
.to be on MTV.

Love & Death in the American Novel, there, Lit ill bud.

Descartes!   I ME MINE !!!!

It's all about ME and MY MIND!

I am the measure of all things.

It's the American Romantic. SONG OF MY SELF.

P's novels are COOOO COOO NESTS full of men-boyz who are just waiting
for RPM to show up and lift the fucking sink and set the chief free.


Big Nurse.  Ever see the Movie? It's all about WORK!

Catch that 22 ....Cuckoo.


Babies of WAck E Nest COOO COOO

And don't forget Rip Van Tinkle and Dennis Flange.

This is why Melville is the Man for Pynchon. He does not, as he
famously said, live under Emerson's transparent eyeball rainbow.



and see The American Narcissus by Joyce W. Warren